WATERFRONT CONDITIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 7

WATERFRONT CONDITIONS

SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY

ATTITUDE OF MINISTERS

DESIRE FOR EFFICIENCY

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day

The suggestion made by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that the Government should be asked to set up a Royal Commission to investigate waterfront conditions has been adopted by the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, according to advice received at a meeting of the Auckland chamber to-day.

The executive further advised that the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage had assured them that the Government would at all times co-cperate with the shipowners concerned to insure that the industry in New Zealand would be carried on without interruption under reasonable conditions, and also that the Hon. H. T. Armstrong had stated that the Government was desirous that work on the waterfront should be performed efficiently and that the matter would receive full consideration.

The president, Mr. W. R. Fee, said that there had been so many complaints that the time had arrived for somebody to take the matter up. What the real trouble was, was difficult to say, but there was some reason for the methods adopted. It could not be that the men were doing it merely to annoy people. It should be properly investigated and the trouble rectified. They had gone as far as they could at the moment.