LOADED BY CREW

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 13

LOADED BY CREW

Meat for Port Dunedin WATERSIDERS’ BAN Other Cargo Unaffected SHIP SAILS SATURDAY Waterside workers having refused to handle frozen meat, the officers and crew of the C. and D. Line motor-ship Port Dunedin, loaded the first .consignment, amounting to three trucks, into the vessel last night. The remainder of the meat, some 16,000 freight carcases, from five different freezing works, will also be loaded by the ship’s complement to-day and to-morrow. The Port Dunedin arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from New Plymouth, where her crew had loaded frozen meat which the waterside workers there had refused to handle, and commenced loading butter, cheese, wool and general cargo; the waterside workers handling this cargo as usual. When the men were asked yesterday to handle frozen meat, howl ever, they declined. Two gangs worked overtime last night cleaning up the last of the cheese. This was completed about nine o’clock, and as soon as the majority of the men had left the wharf, the Port Dunedin’s crew set to work to load the three trucks of meat into the vessel, the work continuing until about midnight. Several of the wharf police were in the vicinity, but there was no trouble of any description. The present intention Is for the crew to handle the remainder of the 16,000 carcases of frozen meat, and the Port Dunedin is expected to leave Wellington to-mor-row for Gisborne 'and Auckland to complete loading for London.