MANNING THE SHIPS
AFFECTED BY STRIKE.
FREE LABOUR PROPOSED. BY" COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT, (Received Oct. 2, 12.55 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 2. At a meeting of importers and exporters to discuss the effect on trade of the shipping strike, the opinion was expressed that commercial interests should make their own arrangements for manning, loading and unloading the vessels. A committee was formed to ensure a representative attendance of merchants at a meeting to be held early next week. Customs revenue for September, declined £387,000 as compared with the previous September, chiefly due to the seamen’s strike and the incidence of the new tariff.
HORORATA’S CARGO. WATERSIDERS WON’T WORK IT. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 2. An effort was made last night and again this morning- hv the New’ Zealand Shipping Company to unload the cargo of the Hororata which, is consigned to Dunedin. Watersiders, however. refused to he transferred from the Danish motor ship Sally Maersk or to respond to a call for labour at 8 o’clock this morning. It was the intention of the New Zealand Shipping Co. to tranship cargo amounting to about 2000 tons of seasonable goods and general cargo from the Hororata to the Wingatui. hut as- no labour was obtainable the Wingatui had to make her departure for Dunedin this morning practically empty.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 October 1925, Page 7
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