MOVE TO AUCKLAND
WATERSIDE WORKERS SECONDARY PORTS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Waterside workers from small ports where trade has greatly decreased since the outbreak of the war. are transferring to the Auckland waterfront. Men from Bluff, Wanganui. New Plymouth, Napier, Gisborne and Kaipara harbour have transferred to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, in order to obtain more work. The greatest influx is from Wanganui. 1G men having come to Auckland. POSITION IN GISBORNE "The transfers from this port are nothing unusual," said the secretary of the Gisborne branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Federation, Mr. G. Thomas, when commenting on the situation in Gisborne today in relation to the number of applications for transfers from Gisborne to the main ports. He said that the changes were no more than the normal shifting of labour from one port to another within the organisation of the union Men went from this port and others moved in from other ports. In the past three years, Mr. Thomas said, 20 men had left Gisborne on transfer to main ports. Last year 10 left Gisborne, and for this year to date six had moved on to work elsewhere.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 3
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201MOVE TO AUCKLAND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 3
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