PACKERS’ STRIKE WILL HOLD UP WOOL
(11 a.m.) SYDNEY. Feb. 16. Three thousand storeman packers refused today to deliver any wool, skins or hides from the stores in Sydney. They will receive wool, skins and hides but will not help in their dispatch from stores. This decision was reached at a stopwork meeting when the men decided on direct action after their claim for a 30/- weekly wage increase with proportional amounts for casual workers was refused. Sydney is now at the peak of the season for wool shipments and it _ is expected that a number of ships loading wool will be affected immediately.
—Pushed. “What’s this I hear, Flight-Lieuten-ant. I’m told you were so drunk last night that you pushed a wheelbarrow .through the native quarter. Is that the way to keep up our prestige with these people?” "You ought to know, sir. You were in the barrow.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19490216.2.102
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22872, 16 February 1949, Page 7
Word Count
149PACKERS’ STRIKE WILL HOLD UP WOOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22872, 16 February 1949, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in