LOADING OF MEAT

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 12

LOADING OF MEAT

Approach To P.M. Everyone concerned with meat loading at Lyttelton was concerned about the decision of the New Zealand Meat Board and the Overseas Ship Owners’ Committee to ship South Island meat for London and Liverpool through Timaru and Bluff, Mr L. G. Amos, chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, said yesterday. He had agreed to join Captain J. B. McGowan, chairman of the Otago Harbour Board, in an approach to the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) to see who would pay the subsidy on freight charges. In the meanwhile everyone concerned with meat loading at Lyttelton had agreed to run two exercises, Mr Amos said. They were designed to show avoidable delays and how those delays could be met One exercise would be on the Adelaide Star, which was due at the end of the month, and the other would be probably on the Persic. The board yesterday met representatives of its employees' union, stevedores, waterside workers, tally clerks, the Railways Department the railway unions, Federated Farmers, freezing companies, the Port Employers’ Association, the Overseas Ship Owners* Committee, and the Waterfront Industry Commission.