Flying wharfies
NZPA Auckland The cargo business is brisk at Bluff, but quiet at the Port of Auckland. Consequently 50 watersiders were flown to Bluff yesterday to help out for two weeks, possibly three. Auckland had 500 more watersiders than it needed yesterday with the conventional wharves temporarily bare of ships. Watersiders, under the inter-port transfer clause, regularly move about New Zealand when labour is short elsewhere, but this is the first time Auckland labour has gone to Bluff.
Return air fares for the 50 will cost $13,200. The men stay ’in whatever motels or hotels are available, according to the Waterfront Industry Commission branch manager, Mr R. Mooney. The commission levies the shipowners with the cost of the transfers, which are now quite common between ports. “It works out cheaper to move watersiders around the ports like this than to have a ship idle or delayed through a labour shortage,” said Mr Mooney.
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