PORT CAMPBELL SAILS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 104, 27 January 1938, Page 10

PORT CAMPBELL SAILS

Chilled Beef All On Board CREW’S ALL-NIGHT JOB After loading all night, the Port Campbell’s crew placed the last of her chilled beef cargo under hatches at about live o’clock yesterday morning, and turned in for a few hours’ rest before the* ship left Wellington for Napier later in the forenoon. The crew undertook the work of loading this perishable cargo after the waterside workers engaged for the ship ceased work late on Tuesday afternoon following a dispute concerning whether they should work during the tea interval. Between dark on Tuesday and daylight yesterday, the single gang of volunteer members of the crew, numbering about 30, loaded some 1000 quarters of chilled beef, the perishable portion of the ship’s cargo. Six truckloads of frozen meat and five trucks of butter were left to be loaded on the ship’s return to Wellington next Thursday ; the butter was placed in cool storage, the meat returned to the freezing chambers at Ngahauranga, The Port Campbell’s final sailing for London has been postponed until February 5. No work was done on the wharves yesterday, except for the unloading of 1500 cases of fruit from the Rangatira. The day was a holiday devoted to the waterside workers’ picnic. This morning, it is understood, the Port Campbell dispute will be considered by the control board, comprising four shipowners’ representatives and four trade union representatives. MINISTER’S INQUIRY By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 26> The Minister of Labour, Hon. 1-1. T. Armstrong, stated this morning that he bad telegraphed Wellington for full particulars of the wharf labourers walking off the Port Campbell. Until that came to baud he could say nothing.