SHIPPING TROUBLES

Evening Star, Issue 18999, 22 July 1925, Page 8

SHIPPING TROUBLES

CONDITIONAL SURRENDER THE VESSELS BEING WORKED. Though about seventy waterside workers declined to lie engaged this morning to discharge the Kawatiri, the men decided during the forenoon to start work on condition that the wages question concerning the Kawatiri was considered (while the men were working) by a Disputes Committee meeting presided over by an independent chairman. The companies hare granted the request, so that the 1 p.m. calls for labor for the Kawatiri, the Breeze, the Hollinsidc, the Wingatni, and the Doonholm were responded to, and automatically the working of cargo on the vessels was commenced. Full gangs were hooked for the collier, which has lain idle at Dunedin for U)Jdays, and over which the dispute arose, and also for the Wingatni. The four gangs for each are comprised of approximately sixty men. Altogether, the calls gave work to the, great bulk of the local waterfront men. At 1.15 I lie Kawatiri's forward hatches were removed, mid fifteen minutes hi lor Hie first basket of coal was sent ashore. COXCFRNIXG SUGAR. hi speaking of the scarcity of sugar, the representative of a large merchant linn said this morning that grocers had been constantly inquiring for it, and while our reporter was conversing with him a grocer with a large business telephoned asking if ho could bo supplied. This grocer, who sells about five tons of sugar per month, sold the last of his stock last night. The merchant's store has been without the commodity for several days.