THE WATERSIDE CRISIS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 6

THE WATERSIDE CRISIS

GOVERNMENT INTERVENES. WILL CONTROL THE WBCARVES AND EMPLOY LABOTTR, DRASTIC WAR REGULATIONS. (Bj- Telegraph..—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Under War .Regulations issued to-night it is provided that the Governor may from time to time, by Order-in-Council, declare any wharf or ■wharves to be a Government wharf. The Governor may also appoint any person to be controller of euch Government wharf, and the controller of the Government wharf may from time to time employ all such wharf labourers and other persons as he coneidere necessary for the loading, unloading, and diepatch of vessels, and may enter into such contracts as he thinks reasonable on behalf of the Crown for the payment of euch persons at such rates as may be agreed on. When the controller is satisfied that the conduct or character of any person ie such that his liberty of access to that wharf is prejudicial to the effective use, control, or administration thereof the controller may, iby order in writing, warn him off that wharf. If after any person has been bo warned off a Government wharf he enters or remains upon that wharf or loiters in the vicinity he shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations. Every person "who incites any other person to refuse or fs.il to offer or render service or effective eervice as a wharf labourer on any Government wharf, or who does any act, or publishes—whether to any person or persons or to the public at large—any utterance intended or calculated to interfere with the effective use, or control, or administration of a Government wharf,'or iwith the proper loading, unloading, or dispatch of any vessel, or to obstruct the due administration of these regulations shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations. Every person who does wilful damage to the Government wharf or other property being thereon or an any ship lying thereat shall be guilty of an offence. Every person wiho conspires with any other person to prevent, delay, or otherwise interfere with the proper loading , , unloading, or dispatch of any vessel, whether lying at a Government wharf or not, or who does any act or publfehee any utterance intended to prevent, delay, or otherwise interfere with the proper loading, unloading, or dispatch of any vessel, shall be guilty ,of an offence.