Interisland freight ban off
(N.Z. Press Association’ WELLINGTON. May 5. Maritime unions today lifted their ban on carrying inter-island freight after only a dozen rail waggons had been delayed. The ban on goods consigned bv freight forwarders and trade cars was announced on Monday and introduced this morning. It was lifted onlv hours later, after the Minister of Labour (Mr Gordon) had agreed to meet a nine-man union deputation tomorrow morning. A Railwavs Department spokesman, Mr Michael Burgess, said today that "about a dozen rail waggons were not carried by ferry from Wellington this morning because of the ban.” The waggons were taken to Picton on an afternoon sailing. The unions had imposed the ban in protest against the Government’s decision to withdraw the Rangatira from the Wellington-Lyttelton ser. vice. The deputation will discuss with Mr Gordon various labour problems that are likely to arise from the Rangatira's withdrawal. The ban was to apnly on al) Cook Strait rail ferries, the RangAtira, and Union Steam Ship Company’s Tasman vessels carrying freight between the North and South Islands.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 1
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177Interisland freight ban off Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 1
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