WORK STOPS EARLY

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30725, 14 April 1965, Page 3

WORK STOPS EARLY

Board Workers Dissatisfied

6V.Z. Press Association)

AUCKLAND, April 13.

Only a trickle of cargo moved across the Auckland wharves after 5 p.m. today. Only 5 per cent of the Auckland Harbour Board’s normal work force was available for overtime and the situation is likely to remain that way. The board employees, unhappy at the disparity between their rate of pay and the rates negotiated by the Port Employers’ Association with other port workers in the new hours and pay agreements, stopped at 5 p.m. Until their new award is negotiated (the talks have broken down twice already and are not due to resume until May 4) the Harbour Board workers are still covered by their old award which is badly out of line with the new 10-hour streamlined day of the watersiders. The board workers decided to go, home at the end of eight hours today after being told on Monday afternoon that talks at the week-end between their national union and the National Association of Harbour Boards were ineffective.

Duke of Edinburgh Awards. —The following members of the Y.M.C.A. were successful in the bronze section of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme: G. Brown, R. Dixon, M. Ingold, R. McLeod, R. Skurr, S. Taggart.