FISH NOT LOADED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 14

FISH NOT LOADED

BLUFF CONSIGNMENTS STAND BY SHIP'S CREW THE SOUTHLAND DISPUTE Ley telegraph—press association] INVERCARGILL,' Friday A large consignment of fish from the Southland Cool Stores and the Bluff Freezing Company, which was loaded out for shipment to Melbourne yesterday by the Waitaki, was left unloaded this evening. It was stated that the crew firmly refused to take the ship to sea if the fish was put on board. f This stand was taken, it is understood, because the Seamen's Union is sympathetic to the Fishermen's Union, which is affiliated to it,. Southland fishermen are at present idle, owing to a dispute over the price to bo paid for fish by the merchants. The attitude taken in this case is considered strange, as the consignment had been paid for at an agreed price.. Instructions were received from the merchants concerned to load into trucks approximately GGB cases of frozen blue cod for shipment to Australia by the Waitaki. This was done, but advice was later received that if the firsh was taken on board, the crew would refuse to sail. Consequently the fish remains in the trucks at further loss to those concerned.