Briefs

Press, 28 June 1989, Page 8

Briefs

Labour Court judge The Minister of Labour, Mr Rodger, yesterday announced the appointment of Mr Graeme Colgan as a Labour Court judge. Mr Colgan, a barrister with his own practice in Auckland, will take up his duties in Wellington on July 3 but will later preside in Auckland.—PA Debate muzzled—East Public servants opposed to the introduction of trout farming have been muzzled, says the Opposition member of Parliament for Rotorua, Mr Paul East. Some public servants had spoken in favour of trout farming proposals while others such as Conservation Department officers had been warned not to comment. Mr East said New Zealand had big problems with grass carp and he had little confidence in the ability of'the private or public sector to stop disease spreading among trout. Opposition to farming from New Zealand’s 100,000 fresh-water anglers would be widespread, he said. Dispute stalls kiwifruit New Zealand’s multimillion-dollar kiwifruit trade with Japan could suffer as a result of a waterfront dispute which broke out at Whangarei yesterday, the Kiwifruit Marketing Board says. The board’s warning came after the freighter Posyet 111 was left idle at the port because of a demarcation dispute involving the Waterside Workers’ Union and the Harbour Workers’ Union over the use of waterfront cargo machinery. The ship was scheduled to load 340,000 trays of kiwifruit for Japan, but according to the marketing board far more than the one shipment could be at stake. —PA.