WORK ON WHARVES

Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 10

WORK ON WHARVES

EASTER HOLIDAY. PLANS CONTROL COMMISSION'S ORDER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 16. An order has been issued by the Waterfront Control Commission to apply to all ports in the Dominion during the Easter and Anzac Day holiday periods. It provides for restricted work, but lays down that all vessels shall be worked on Saturday morning and that work shall be done on Saturday afternoon to 5 o'clock in order to allow ships to complete for sailing, or to discharge perishable cargoes. On Sunday and Monday ships with coal, timber, and cement will be handled. Others will not require to be worked except by arrangement between the employers and the union. The Anzac. Day provisions are the same as for Sunday. The Waterfront Control Commissioner, Captain R. E. Price, said today that the British Ministry of War Transport was still operating overseas ships and food ships, and had cabled its representative here, Sir Alexander Roberts, to the effect that it wanted overtime work to be reduced to a minimum. That instruction had never been repealed, Captain Price said he understood that the men were prepared to work the ships, but in view of the lack of information regarding the plans of the freezing works and other industries, it was not possible to make any definite general order regarding the loading of food ships, and so it had been left open for the employers and the unions to make 1 their own arrangements.