BRITISH FREIGHTERS
CHARTERED BY AUSTRALIA RELIEF FOR COASTAL TRADE Rec. 8 p.m. SYDNEY, Mar. 19. The Australian Shipping Board has chartered five more British freighters for the Australian coasial trade, bringing the total under charter for that purpose to 19 vessels. The ships, which are due in Sydney next month, are of between 6000 and 12,000 tons and will probably be used on the coast for a year. The biggest will carry coal and iron ore and the others general cargo and housing materials. “ This situation has been forced on us by the tactics of Sydney watersiders,” said the Director of Shipping, Mr R. A. Hetherington. “If we got the continuity of wharf labour which we get in all other States except Queensland, all these ships would not be required. The watersiders here seem to be bent on restricting stevedoring operations and frustrating the benefit derived from the better turnaround of ships in other ports.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26415, 20 March 1947, Page 7
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