UGLY SITUATION
HOLD=UP OF PRODUCE. FARMERS GETTING DESPERATE, ULTIMATUM TO' WATERSIDEES. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. Received Oct. 29 12.5 p.m. BRISBANE, Oct. 29. Conditions at Cairns are assuming an ugly aspect. There have been several free fights, and disturbances verging on riots have occurred near the wharves. Farmers and timber workers are reduced to despair owing to the hold-up of cargoes, and a meeting of farmers and timber workers sent an ultimatum to the watersiders that unless they resume work by Friday the farmers will handle their own produce. They also resolved to ask the shipping companies whether, in the event of the farmers guaranteeing the necessary labour to work the ships, they would send ships to Cairns to remove the produce. It was further decided to organise the farmers of the district to give effect to the resolutions. The Inkerman Chamber of Commerce decided to telegraph Dr. Earle Page that “owing to the apathy, of the State Government regarding the calamitous situation at Inkerman, we urgently desire you to despatch a Commonwealth steamer to Bowen to remove .sugar to the southern refineries. Every assistance is guaranteed locally by the farmers to load the vessel.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 October 1925, Page 9
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194UGLY SITUATION Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 October 1925, Page 9
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