WATERFRONT WORK
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE SEEK COMMISSION <»*•• 13SOC1AT10* TBLXGftAH.) AUCKLAND, February 3. A suggestion made by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that the Government be asked to set up a Royal Commission to investigate waterfront conditions, has been adopted by the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, according to advice received at a meeting of the Auckland Chamber to-day. The letter added that the Prime Minister (the Rt. 'Hon. M. J. Savage) had assured them that the Government would at all times co-operate with shipowners and others concerned to ensure that industry in New Zealand would be carried on without interruption under reasonable conditions, and also that the Minister for Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) had stated that the Government was desirous that work on the waterfront should be performed efficiently and that the matter would receive full consideration. The president 'Mr W. R. Fee) said that there had been so many complaints that the time had arrived for somebody to take the matter up. What the real trouble was it was difficult to say, but there was some reason for the methods adopted. It could not be that the men were doing it merely to annoy people. The position should be properly investigated and the trouble rectified. They had gone as far as they could at the moment.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 4 February 1938, Page 14
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