AUCKLAND FERRY SERVICES

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24740, 4 December 1945, Page 3

AUCKLAND FERRY SERVICES

♦ STOP-WORK MEETING ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 3. Passenger ferry services to and from all parts of the North Shore will be suspended between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Wednesday, when the first stop-work meeting of all members of the Devonport Steam Ferry Company Employees' Union will be held. One vehicular ferry will remain on the time-table in the Devonport service in case of sickness or any other urgent need for transport Meetings of the union have previously been held in two sections, one in the morning for night workers, and one in the evening for the morning shift. "Several matters of importance to the union concerning company policy nave to be discussed, and it is desired that all members should be able to attend the meeting," said the secretary (Mr F. C. Chandler). He did not disclose the nature of the matters to be discussed. The meeting had been arranged at a time when it would cause the least inconvenience to the public. If it was not over by 10 o'clock crews of boats sailing at that time would leave the meeting to pick up the time-table. The assistant manager of the company. Captain R. A. Parker, said he had been informed by a union official that the meeting would be held. No specific reason for the meeting was given, except that it was considered that the matters tn tm brought forward were so that it was necessary for all the men to be •present