WATERSIDE DISPUTE.
♦_ fTWO STEAMERS HELD UP. (PKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, July 9. Tho steamer Opihi is delaved at Duncdin owing to the Port Chalmers watersiders demanding extra rates for clearing coal from the bilges. The employers offered the extra rate that had
been paid meviously lor similar work at Port Chalmers. The Disputes. Committee met to-day, but no settlement was arrived at. No'labour is available to discharge coal from the collier Kawatiri. It is stated that the few men available* this nionuno- demanded more than the award "rate before commencing work. No labour, however, was engaged.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18430, 10 July 1925, Page 8
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