EVENING MEAL FOR WATERSIDERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1949, Page 3

EVENING MEAL FOR WATERSIDERS

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Seeking a “substantial” meal, 32 waterside workers were brought by a special launch from Chelsea to Auckland last evening. The men, who were required to work overtime in the Union Steam Ship Company s collier Karepo, informed the company that the meal cooked for them on board the ship was inadequate. A similar complaint was made at Portland a week ago, when Whangarei watersiders refused overtime on the same company’s collier Kaimiro because they were not provided with a three-course hot dinner. The secretary of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union, Mr R. Jones, said that when men worked overtime on a sugar ship at Chelsea a proper meal was provided for them by a caterer. With only a collier at the wharf, they were given a onecourse meal prepared by the cook on the ship. The men needed a substanial meal and he had instructed them to come to the city for it. After investigating the complaint, the shipping company decided to hire a special launch to convey the men to the city at 5 p.m. and to return them to Chelsea after they had finished their meal.