OBJECTION TAKEN
MEMBER’S STATEMENT (P.A.) DUNEDIN. March 22. T don’t like this sort of veiled threat and the board cannot tolerate it, ’ said Mr. F. E. Tyson at a meeting of the Otago Harbour Board when Mr. S. B. MacDonald, a member of the board, who is also secretary of the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union, suggested that if something were not done soon about the question of tractor-drivers on the Dunedin wharves there might be a hold-up of work in the port. Mr. MacDonald said a certain firm was taking tractor-drivers out of a coal yard in the vicinity and putting them on the wharf and the waterside workers objected. Members of the board took exception to Mr. MacDonald using the word "we” when lie spoke of the waterside workers. “Is Mr. MacDonald here as a representative of .the waterside workers or of the ratepayers?” asked Mr. Tyson. The chairman, Mr. W. R. Clarke, said the board did not supply the tractors for work at the Dunedin wharves, but if it were decided in future that it should do so the question would then be decided as to who would drive them.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 6
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192OBJECTION TAKEN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 6
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