CEMENT LOADING TROUBLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1364, 15 February 1912, Page 8

CEMENT LOADING TROUBLE.

THE NEW METHOD OF PACKING. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchursh, February H. Eestarding the refusal of the wharf labourers at Wellington on Tuesday to unload cement from the Monowai which was not packed in paper- lined hags, 3h'. Al. I', Murray, manager of the Textile Bag and SucU'Commniy, Ltd., states that a resolution was arrive! at l>y (ho Waterside Workers' Conference on September 1, mil, to the effect that wharf labourers would decline to unload liino and cement after, January J, 11)12, unless packed in paper-line.l bagv Consequently his tompany had only four months in which lo manufacture the bass. In October last the cement manufacturers of the Dominion were informed by his company that it would be impossible to supply the bass until (he middle of February, 1912, and the Wntorsiile. Workers' Federation agreed to suspend (heir refusal to handle cement unless in paper-lined bags, till (hat date. The first shipment of the bogs reached Auckland on February 10, the company and the cement companies in the meantime lining used all possible expedition te meet thi? nxiuirornerits of the waterside workers. Previously these cement bags were made in Calcutta by coolie labour, but they are now being made at the company's works in Dunedin. The company's principal works are in Christchurch, but in respect t« these cement and lime bags they found that owing to the freight charges on the I.ytteltonChristclmrch line they could not produce them here profitably', and consequently they are being made in Dunedin, the company having erected special machinery for' the purpose.

At the annual concort given to the inmates of the . TliMuston Workhouse (Northamptonshire) the assistant matron sang "Good old Jeff" for the twenty-third year in succession.