INVESTIGATION SOUGHT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
The suggestion made by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that. the Government be asked to set up a Royal Commission to investigate waterfront has been adopted ;by the executive of the' Associated Chambers' of Commerce, according to advice received at a, meeting <of the Auckland chamber today. . , . The' executive further advised that the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) had. assured them that the Government would at all times cooperate with ship owners and others concerned' to insure that the industry in New Zealand would be carried on without interruption under reasonable conditions. Also, that the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) had stated that the Government was desirous'that work: on the waterfront should be performed efficiently, and that the matter would receive full consideration. . The president (Mr. W./R. Free)'said there had been :soi many complaints that 'the time had 'arrived for somebody to take "the matter up. What the real trouble was it was difficult to say, but there was some reason for the methods adopted.' It could not be that the men' were doing it merely to annoy people. The duestion should be properly investigated and the trouble rectified. ,• They had gone .as far as they could at the moment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 10
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