Shipping News
Problems confronting Cus-j toms staff at Lyttelton, j where about 31 officers are! working in accommodation j designed for about five men,! have been resolved. The matter had been re-: ferred to the Public Service; Association and the officers had indicated that they would review the situation; ' tomorrow unless something I was done. The secretary of the Pub-' lie Service Association in Christchurch (Mr J. M. | McKenzie), who outlined the staff numbers, said that staff increases had outstripped accommodation. The State Services Com'mission had also intervened' 'and the Ministry of Works and Development was preparing plans to extend the: accommodation at Lyttelton, he said. ! “The necessary approval I to go ahead has been obtained and so the matter is resolved. There will be no 'stopping of work bv Customs staff,” Mr McKenzie said. * s-s The cost of building aver-age-sized fishing trawlers in New Zealand is said to be increasing at the rate of more than SI 0 a week. Lyttelton fishermen preparing to cope with the fish ing industry’s expansion with the advent of the 200mile zone have expressed concern about the rising costs. The main reason is said to be the consistent rise in the price of imported steel. Some shipbuilding firms
| are reluctant to give accuirate quotations because with J steel as the basic material in i j most types of construction, [costs rely heavily on the I stability of the overseas I steel market. ,! The revaluation of the I Japanese yen against the (New Zealand dollar has had lan adverse effect on the I price of Japanese steel landed in New Zealand. ARRIVALS Coastal Trader (7,5 a.m.), 2500, Capt. R. Jackson Nedlloyd Freemantle (10.29 a.m.) 10,909. Singapore, Capt. H. Promk (Guthreys). DEPARTURES Toa Moan a ilp.m.), 1191, Lautoka. Capt. J. Stannaway (S.C.N.Z.). Coastal Trader (1.20 p.m.), 2500. Auckland (S.C.N.Z.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Anatoly Lonacharsky, Bluff, November 10. New’ Zealand Pacific, Auckland, November 11. Tasgold, Singapore, November 11. i Holmdale. Chatham Islands, November 11. Wild Avocet, Auckland, Novem-, ber 12. Taulotto 11, Wellington. November 12. Coastal Trader, Auckland, November 13. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Kolle D. Bluff, today. : Untertuerkheim, Shanghai, today. Encounter Bay. Sydney, NovemU.S.N. Knoor, Antarctic, November 12. Coastal Trader, Dunedin, November 13. Oriental Crown. New Plymouth, November 14. VESSELS IN PORT Untertuerkheim, Cashin Quay No. 1. Nedlloyd Freemantle, Cashin Quay No. 2. Kolle D.» No. 2 East. Coastal Ranger, No 2 West. Oriental Crown. No 3 West. I U.S.N. Knoor, No. 4 East.
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