WORK IN THE SOUTH
AT DUNEDIN. (BT TELEGRAPH—PRISS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, 15th December. Some 250 men were engaged in workino cargo on the wharves to-day. Eighty men are still boarding on the Moeraki, and from to-day those living on the vessel will be charged 8d per meal. A large number of men, however, are going home for meals. PROGRESS AT LYTTELTON. CrTaSTCHURCH, 15j,h Dec. Strikers continue*to march in procession to the Oddfellows' Hall, Lyttelton, and hold meetings and discuss their ! position at the street corners, while all the time work is proceeding briskly at the waterfront, and Arbitrationists, to whom the work of loading and unloadinp ships was a few' weeks ago totally unknown, are daily becoming more proficient, and by Christmas time will ha.ye earned big wages. To-day the men seem more excited than is their usual demeanour, the election of to-morrow being the predominating topic of conversation. Plenty of labour is available for tho vessels in port at tho praient time, and for the etorej.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1913, Page 3
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166WORK IN THE SOUTH Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1913, Page 3
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