AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS
"ABSOLUTE DISGRACE." [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND. February 17. In a reference to the changing labour conditions, at a meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board, the Chairman, Mr C. G. Macindoe, said the waterside workers were getting more money and had reduced hours. “The operations of the port, so far as the waterside workers are concerned, are an absolute disgrace. In Auckland, and in other main ports, work is restricted to the absolute minimum, and that is a serious charge on tl'.e primary producers of the country." Mr Macindoe added that in other ports where ships used their own gear for handling cargo, twice the amount of work was done, compared with what was done in Auckland with modern facilities. The question would have to be considered, by those" employing labour, and the Board, wljjch was vitally affected, would have to do something to see that the position was corrected.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 12
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