WELLINGTON WATERFRONT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 November 1942, Page 2

WELLINGTON WATERFRONT

LABOUR UNDER DIRECT CONTROL COMMISSION TAKES OVER From 8 a.m. to-day the supervision of the loading and discharging of all overseas vessels and all coastal ships working under the co-operative contract system at the port of Wellington will be taken over by the front Control Commission. TWsr statement was made by Captain Price, chairman of the commisaffih” Captain A. J. Lever-Naylor, ■ merly wharf superintendent for the commission at Auckland, and before that for many years chief stevedore for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., at Wellington, has been appointed supervising stevedore. “The commission is taking over the direct control of the labour,” stated Captain Price. “The present employed by the shipping ’ companies will be responsible for The ordering of cargo and rail trucks, and for safe stowage. Since July, 1940, waterside work as Wellington has been under a contracting system on on a casual basis, the control of the labour being in the hands of the shipping companies. It has been found by the commission that tins dual control is unsatisfactory, and it is considered that there can be an improvement in efficiency “The system being introduced in Wellington to-day has been in operation in Auckland since June last, and there has been an improvement both in the rate and the control work, particularly in the working or overseas vessels, besides an impmvfl-. ment in industrial relationships. WPHf* the foremen under one control, it enables us to pool their services and use them to better advantage, giving more flexibility and better service.* 5