Slow Unloading of Cargo of Timber
AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS CRITICISED Per Press Association. SYDNEY, March 6. A complaint that much of the profit from a cargo of timber carried from Vancouver had been eaten up because of slow unloading operations at Auckland by waterworkers was made by Captain Beaten, master of the freighter Loch Don, now in Sydney. Captain Beaten said that the Aucklanu stevedores had taken ten days to
discharge the consignment of timber tiom the Loch Don. Only nine slings had been required to load the same cargo into the vessel at Vancouver. Captain Beaten emphasised that if tramp shipping was to compete euccesstuiJy in Britain’s colonial trade tho men who handled the cargo must give a "fair .deal.'*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 2
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