Cargo-Handling Mission

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31248, 21 December 1966, Page 3

Cargo-Handling Mission

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 20.

A 12-man mission to Australia and Honolulu that will help Auckland to keep pace with modern developments in cargo-hand-ling was named at a meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board today.

The board chairman and leader of the mission, Mr R.

C. F. Savory, said: “It will learn the techniques which will inevitably have to come if we are not to fall far behind the rest of the world.” The board representatives on the mission, the first of its type in the board’s 96-year history, are Mr Savory, the general manager, Mr R. T. Lorimer, and his assistant, Mr D. N. Morgan. Sponsored members of the mission are the managingdirector of the Waitemata Stevedoring Company, Mr R. C. Downie, wharf superintendent for the Union Steam Ship

Company, Captain 1 K. Gray, the president of the Harbour Boards Employees’ Union, Mr T. T. Henehan, the president of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union Mr E. Isbey, and the director of the Auckland Chamber of commerce, Mr W. N. Pearman.

Mr Savory said the cost of the mission, £3500, would come out of the board’s general revenue and would be validated by Parliament. In addition, another four have been invited to accompany the party at the expense of their sponsors. They are the managing-director of stevedoring company, Leonard and Dingley, Ltd., Mr K. G. Poole, the general manager of the Auckland Stevedoring Company, Mr R. Williamson, the manager of D. McL. Wallace Steel Construction, Ltd., Mr H. van Swet, and the sales manager of Mason Brothers Engineering, Ltd., Mr A. Halt Mr Savory said that the board expected certain Auckland carrying linns would send representatives. The mission would be away from January 22 to February 10 and was an effort on the part of the board to get industry awakened to what it has to face in the not-too-distant future to meet the changes in cargo-handling methods. On their return, members would be expected to be available for seminars conducted by the board.

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