Talks on pillaging

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33534, 15 May 1974, Page 2

Talks on pillaging

(N.%. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 14.

The pillaging committee of the Port Employers’ Association and the police met in Wellington for more than three hours today.

They decided to seek a meeting with the Ministers of Police, Labour, and Transport to discuss the pillaging problem. Representatives of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, the Port Users’ Committee, the Ministry of Transport, the Customs Department, the Marine Insurance Council, shipping companies, the Harbours’ Association, and the police attended today’s meeting. A spokesman for the Port Employers’ Association said after the meeting that the aim of the meeting had been to try to find the best way to tackle pillaging. “We are concerned right from the ships to the warehouse doors,” he said. The pillaging committee was formed late in 1972 by the Port Employers’ Association, in an attempt to stop pillaging on the waterfront. The Waterside Workers’

(Federation has not been inj vited to become a member of I | the committee. ' When asked about the watersiders’ absence from the committee, the port employers’ spokesman said that they were not members “at this stage.”

He said the committee had | initially been established to , explore the cargo system . from an employer’s position. ■ “Pillaging has got to be ’ stopped, and this committee ; is making a sincere effort to do just that,” he said.