NO CARGO WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 13

NO CARGO WORK

PACIFIC STRIKE MAKURA INVOLVED GOODS TO BE BROUGHT BACK Hie Royal Mail liner Makura ivas to loavo San Francisco for Wellington and Sydney yesterday, alter being tumble to unload her cargo owing to the American waterfront strike. The vessel arrived at San Franojsco on Friday morning with GOO tons of cargo from Sydney and Wellington. The cargo will bo taken back to Sydney, where it. will be transferred to the Union Company's transpacific: steamer Wairnna, which is to leave Sydney for Fiji, Apia. Rarotonga, Papeete, San Francisco and Vancouver about the middle of December. Iho Makura is scheduled to arrive at Wellington on December 7 and Sydney on December 12. At Sydney she will he withdrawn from the service, which will then he abandoned by the Union Company. At present the Union Company has two vessels at Vancouver, the company's motor-ship Limerick and the chartered motor-ship Cape Horn, which are loading for New Zealand and Australia. Should the American strike end shortly the two vessels will he available to load at San Francisco and Los Angeles, where they will pick up cargo leit by the company's steamer Waiotapu and the Makura. If the strike is prolonged both vessels will load only at Canadian ports 011 the Pacific Coast, as was done by the Waiotapu, which is due at Auckland about November ,'SO. Trie Matson liner Mariposa is still delayed indefinitely at Los Angeles waiting to unload cargo front Australia and Auckland. The Ocean Company's cargo steamer Golden Coast was scheduled to leave Los Angeles for New Zealand and Australia on November 1 with cargo from Pacific Coast ports, but she has been unable to load on account of the strike.