WATERSIDE WAITING SHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 191, 14 August 1928, Page 6

WATERSIDE WAITING SHED.

During the last few months I have been ft frequent visitor to the hospital and could not help noticing the appalling amount of sickness and the crowded condition of the buildings. As a waterside worker, the thought flashed through my mind on noticing member* of our union sick in there: How much of thit sickness was traceable to the waterside waiting shed? In that spat, hopelessly inadequate, thirteen hundred men are jammed tight to the doors so that at times you cannot get in or out. There they sell their labour, and if on* is of small stature his chance is holies*. There is little ventilation and the atmosphere fairly reeks. After being packed like sardines the men disperse to their homes, and I again wonder how much disease has iti origin in that chamber that the Harbour Board in its wisdom has inflicted on th» watersiders for another period of time Will the health authorities do nothing? Commas sense demands that the room should be cloee4 for labour and labour put on out in the opea air till the board puts us in an adequate waiting room. CHAIN SLING.