COMPUTER AGE
Unions In Favour
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, February 27.
The view of automation taken by New Zealand trade unions was that the computer age would prove to be the most exciting in the country’s history, Mr R. Isbey, national president of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Federation, said today. Addressing a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Auckland, Mr Isbey said that this view was subject to the proper handling and introduction of automation which called for great care to avoid social disruption. Mr Isbey was a member of a group sponsored by the Auckland Harbour Board which last month studied mechanisation of cargohandling methods in Melbourne, Sydney and Hawaii. He said that in Hawaii the study group had seen highlysophisticated machinery. The new methods had proved beneficial to the waterside workers:
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 3
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