PROGRESS AT LYTTELTON

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8608, 19 December 1913, Page 8

PROGRESS AT LYTTELTON

LABOUR PLENTIFUL FOR WORKING CARGO. Press Association. CHRISTCHUCH. December 18. Were it not for tho special constables to be seen and tho production of passes necessary to obtain access to the waterfront a visitor to Lyttelton might easily remain in ignorance of the strike, so orderly is the town and so briskly is work proceeding among shipping. Although the number of special police has been considerably reduced there still remains to guard the waterfront a force of over 170 men, of whom over sixty are mounted. This number will not be reduced until the present industrial crisis is definitely settled. Vessels working cargo to-day were the Hercules, Canopus, Arawa. Annie Hill, Kaiapara, Turakina, Kittawa, Storm, Petone, Bainbridge, Cygnet, gnd Kaitangata, for which there was ample labour. The Shaw-Savill liner Arawa sailed this evening for Timarti, and is expected to return to Lvttelton on Monday next, when she will load a large consignment of woo] and dairy produce before sailing for Gisborne to continue loading for Homo. Different vessels which have been laid up at Lyttelton for some weeks are, in spits of tho efforts of Strikers to prevent them, steadily if slowly being again placed in commission. It is announced by the Union Company that the cargo steamer Karamu will resume her running to-morrow. She will load during the day for Greymouth, and will leave to-morrow night. The Kaitangata, which is still engaged in discharging coal from Newcastle, is also expected to bo recommissioned within a few days.