DOMINION PORTS.
HANDUNG OF GOODS. The assertion of an officer in a ship trading with New Zealand that he could handle more goods in a day with 12 kanakas in the Islands, without machinery, than he could handle at an Auckland wharf with 12 waterside workers with the assistance of all their up-to-date machinery was quoted to-day by Mr. H. O. Mellsop, president of the .Auckland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, in referring to what he described as the particularly unsatisfactory etate of affairs on the waterfront.
The executive urged a strictly impartial Royal Commission to investigate thoroughly the causes and report on suggested improvements, said Mr. Mellsop. If, as was stated, the stevedoring companies were paid on a percentage basis on the cost of handling, this in itself needed rectification. As exporters of most of the goods that passed overseas, farmers were most vitally interested and an immediate inquiry was sought.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 114, 17 May 1938, Page 8
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