SUGAR BOAT DISPUTE
No Sign Of Settlement
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, July 3.
The dispute between the Seamen’s Union and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd, is still, deadlocked.
The union is picketing the British freighter Hudson Deep, which carries sugar from Australia to New Zealand. They say it should be manned by New Zealand seamen.
It is costing the Hudson Steam Ship Company $lOOO a day to keep the ship at the western viaduct and it is now a week behind schedule A skeleton staff is aboard the ship. The sugar company has declined to comment on the dispute. Meantime, the union has placed a ban on all sugar carried by coastal vessels.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 21
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