THE TIMBER STRIKE
A SINISTER DEVELOPMENT PUNTS CUT ADRIFT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 5. A sinister development in the timber workers’ dispute was discovered to-day, the mooring lines of six timberladen punts having- been Three of the punts drifted into the Parramatta River fairway, where they formed a menace to ferry and other steamers, but the other three were restrained by additional steel hawsers under, the water, which had been missed. ; , i-, • The incident occurred at the Empire Timber Company’s wharves at* Balmain,' despite the fact that two watchmen wore employed.
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Evening Star, Issue 20117, 6 March 1929, Page 6
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159THE TIMBER STRIKE Evening Star, Issue 20117, 6 March 1929, Page 6
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