Container talks

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 4

Container talks

(N.I. Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 28. The Federation of Labour national executive will meet on Tuesday to discuss the container-handling disputeThe F.O.L. is also expected to discuss Government plans for an independent inquiry into container handfhe Storemen and Packers’ Union, which has been involved in a demarcation dispute with the Waterside Workers’ Union over the packing and unpacking of containers in Consolidation depots, intends to take legal action against the Wellington watersideto If its ban on consolidated containers is not lifted by Wednesday. The storemeb’g union says it will seek a wit of injuction against the watersiders to have their tan declared an illegal strike New York drug haul

Frank Townsend, aged 30, a former American college basketball star who is now the head of a youth sports project in the slums of New York, backed by the First National Bank, has been arrested for the alleged possessing of more than SUSI.Sm worth of. heroin. He was arrested last night on a street near his home in the Bronx, and is said by the police to have been carrying a bag containing 31b of heroin. A search of his apartment disclosed about SUS2O.OOO in cash and a 42 calibre pistol, the police say.—New York, March 28.