BUSY DAY AND TOO FEW HANDS.
■. IS WATERSIDE SITUATION, , ; There .was plenty of work to be found about Wellington wharves-yesterday for Jpillipg hands to-doj but the number of jnf.ii offering was not sufficient to supply ithe.demands. Altogether- there were '•-five "oversea vessels, eleven coastal boats, snd'somo fourteen vessels of the "mos.•qnito.'; fleet" working ..cargo,and it. is statecT: that yesterday was one of the ibiggest day's work (if riot the biggest): ■that, has ever been attacked. in Wellington.'\ That 5s as far'as ..the amount of cargo to be handled -. was . concerned. i*What with' the holiday on. Monday, and Hhe'races, it is -understood that the HarSbouri Board was short of about 150 men ('at eight o'clock, yesterday morning, and (several of the' Vessels/bad to work overtime'in consequence. The only ' vessel which was idle was. ftheNTJnion. Company's Wanaka. She arrived vfrbmLimstone Island on Sunday tevening with a part cargo of cement, and ■'■'the company' s officials, perceiving •Slow. thingS Btood, -put all available men time-table ; boats 'so as to toet'them away at , their appointed times {of departure.-" The Waaaka is to comtmence discharge of her cargo this morn-
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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185BUSY DAY AND TOO FEW HANDS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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