CARGO UNTOUCHED
/ - MEAT NOT HANDLED. WATER SIDERS LEAVE WHARF. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When asked to load a consignment of about 1500 freight carcases of frozen meat on the Commonwealth and Dokininion Line’s motor ship, Port Gisborne, at Wellington on Satnrd it morning, the waterside workers refu -t ed to handle the meat. No explanation was given, the men simply walking off the wharf leaving the cargo untouched. The consignment was from Thomas Borthwiek and Sons’ Waingawa works, which are at present operating willfree labour owing to the freezing work- ■/ £rs ’ dispute. The possibility of the men’s refusa' to load the moat had been considered by the shipping company, and no atI. tempt was made to induce the watcrsiders to handle it after their first refusal, the Port Gisborne sailing at noon on Saturday for Auckland to complete loading for London,
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Northern Advocate, 31 October 1932, Page 6
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143CARGO UNTOUCHED Northern Advocate, 31 October 1932, Page 6
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