MEAT HELD UP.
WATERSIDERS REFUSE HANDLING. (Per Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, October 31. When asked to load a consignment of 1500 freight carcases of frozen meat into the C. and D. liner Port Gisborne at Wellington on Saturday, the watersiders refused to handle the meat. No explanations were given. The consignment was from Thomas Borthwick and Sons’ Waingawa works, which are at present operating with free labour owing to the freezing workers’ dispute. No attempt was made hv the shipping company to induce the watersiders to handle the meat, and the vessel sailed for Auckland to complete loading for London.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 18, 1 November 1932, Page 7
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