Monrstpork Hatches Of Norma! Type j

Northern Advocate, 11 March 1948, Page 4

Monrstpork Hatches Of Norma! Type j

WELLINGTON, Thu. (P.A.) The Waterfront Industry Commission considers that the hatches on the Mountpark in Auckland are safe to handle without the assistance of the ship's gear or cranes. Announcing this today the commis- j sion said the suomission of the national executive of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, which waited on the commission on Tuesday afternoon and discussed the Mountpark dispute, had been carefully considered. The commission, in its statement, ; stresses that the hatches on the Mountpark are of a type frequently found in New Zealand ports and that they had been manhandled in the course cf removing and replacing them for years past. The hatches on the Mountpark, the statement added, vary little in size or weight from many others to pe found in New Zealand ports today, and about which 'here have been no com-. plaints . "It has been suggested by the union that the question as to whether or not the men were wrongfully dismissed can be contested by court action,” the statement says. "The commission is prepared to facilitate this being done.” The commission also offered to facilitate court proceedings in connection vitn its actions in men being placed on penalty, if the union desired to test the commission's decisions. i (SEE PAGE 7)