SHIPPING DISPUTE
DELAY AT LYTTELTON
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCmjRCH, May 30.
The Federal liner Cumberland,-which, arrived at Lyttelton this-morning from Wellington to discharge Liverpool cargo, remained idle all day owing to a dispute 'between the water siders and the Railway Department. Labour1 "was engaged to start at 9 a.m., but the watersiders refused to commence -work until the number of men engaged to remove tarpaulins from the'trucks was increased from four to five.. The Department refused . the request. \ The ship's -vvatersiders were' kept standing by until the afternoon.
Ramsey Wilson and Go. vrill: sell hous*. hold furniture and general effects at them mart, 98 Manners Street,, at 1130 p.m.-to-.-morrow, " i
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1934, Page 9
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