Butterfat Loaded Near Chemicals
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, December 19.
Waterside workers stopped loading on Saturday in one hatch of the Norwegian freighter Tarifa at Wellington after finding that bags of edible butterfat were being stowed close to a cargo of chemicals, an executive of the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union (Mr E. G. Thompson) said today, day.
Mr Thompson said the chemicals were part of a cargo brought to New Zealand from overseas .by the ship. They are due to be discharged at Lyttelton, the next port of call. Several bags of chemicals were damaged and the possibility of the butterfat being contaminated was very great, he said. Discussions between the union and shipping company officials over the stowage were held today.
It was agreed that the rest of the butterfat for the particular hold would be held in storage until the ship had been cleared of her Continental cargo in South Island ports and returned to Wellington to load next month.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31247, 20 December 1966, Page 3
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