IN OTHER CENTRES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10846, 11 March 1921, Page 5

IN OTHER CENTRES

NORMAL CONDITIONS IN DUNEDIN AND AUCKLAND. m rassa association. DUNEDIN, March 10. About 180 watersiders were engaged this morning to work the ships. One hundred and fifty were distributed between the Paloona and the Kaiapoi. The Paloona eails this evening for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Melbourne. One gang was engaged to discharge timber from the schooner Samar. There were not sufficient men this morning to start cn the Tarawera and Te Anau, on which work is expected to commence this afternoon. ram mass association. AUCKLAND, March 10. With the settlement of the dispute shipping in port began to move early this morning, and in a very short time berths, which had been vacated for weeks, were occupied and accommodation at the wharves wss taxed to its full capacity. At 1 o’clock the waterfront became really active with the reversion to normal working conditions, but there sos still a big fleet of vessels at anchor, no less than twelve, of which have been affected by the dispute, being still in close company out m the harbour. At the wharves the total vras 14, five having moved up from the stream. The Rarawa, which has been laid up indefinitely owing to the dispute, resumes its running to New Plymouth at 1 p.m. to-morrow. It was following on the Toceipt this morning of a communication from Wellington that work was to proceed that the locet employers set the port active again. It is apparent tbot the railway department will be hard-pressed to meet the demand for wagons in which to transport coal and merchandise, which ill literally pour out of the big fleet c ;f •-i in the near future.

The Makura's sailing dito for Vancouver has been put back from iO o’clock to-morrow night until noon on IstginUa