CONTAINER PORT
| Fewer thefts likely The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce strongly supports the designation of Lyttelton as a container port. It also plans to send a delegation to the Ports Authority which* is expected to have made its recommendation ia about a month. At a meeting last night the (council approved this as a [resolution by its importers’ committee.
The council also supported a move that the Minister of Police (Mr Connelly) be ad-, vised that if Lyttelton is recognised as,a container port then the incidence of pillaging would decrease if goods were loaded into container* and consigned directly to the port. ; Other resolutions relating ito problems associated with pillaging which were passed included one advising members, aware that small consignments of high value were on the way to them, to notify the local police to watch for these on arrival; and that the Ministers of Police and Transport be informed that codes were being used and that markings would be changed regularly.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33655, 3 October 1974, Page 14
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