Disputed Boat Leaves Bluff
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, August 3. Bluff oystermen will hold a meeting tomorrow to discuss the latest developments in their dispute over the blacklisted boat Southern Enterprise, but the whereabouts of the boat is unknown. Unconfirmed reports indicate that it sailed from Bluff this afternoon and headed north.
The oystermen will discuss a report from their president, Mr H. J. McNeill, and secretary, Mr K. R. Aitken, who met the Federation of Labour’s executive in Wellington last week. Mr Aitken said tonight that since then, some members of the executive had met the Minister of Labour (Mr Shand) and finished a further report to the oystermen. This, too, will be discussed at Bluff tomorrow.
The secretary of the company which owns the Southern Enterprise, Mr K. V. Drummond, would not comment to night, and Marine Department officials in Invercargill and Bluff knew nothing of the ship’s whereabouts. The ship had not been surveyed, and its skipper, Mr J. J. Flutey, did not have a foreign-going master’s ticket which would entitle him to take the boat to the Chatham Islands crayfishing grounds, they said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32057, 4 August 1969, Page 1
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