WORK IN WELLINGTON PORT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 November 1943, Page 5

WORK IN WELLINGTON PORT

EFFECT OF NEW CALL-UP , BOARD TO LODGE APPEALS Wellington, This Day. If all the men who are liable to be called up for a month's military training. in which time it is said they will be employed on harvesting, are called up the work of the port of Wellington will be affected seriously, it was stated at a meeting of the Well'ington Harbour Board last night The board decided to throw on to the Armed Forces Appeal Board the responsibility of saying . whether harvesting is more important . than the work from which the men ’ would be taken. The board carried the following motion, which was moved by Mr W J. Blyth and seconded by Mr W. Applet "That the Government having called on the board to give the utmost dispatch to vessels ,thereby necessitating continuous working day and night over seven days a week, and the Government having recently announced its intention to call up certain classes of men for one month's training with the Territorial Force, the board's executive officers be instructed to appeal to the proper authorities in all cases where such territoricd training would curtail the boards services to shipping: fur-» tner m making such appeals, it be pointed out that over a considerable time the manpower position' has been made so acute as to cause delays to shipping, and that any further depletion of the board's staff would seriships ” delay the Quick turn-round of