"FAIR DEAL" NEEDED
STEVEDORING OPERATIONS COMPLAINT OF DELAY SEA CAPTAIN'S WARNING (Eloe. To]. CoDyrieht—Unitod Press Assn.) (Reed. March 0. 2 p.m.) SYDNEY. March 0. A complaint that much of the profit from a timber cargo carried from Vancouver had been eaten up because of the slow unloading operations at Auckland by the watersiders was made by Captain Beaten, master ol the freighter Loch Don, now i' l Sydney. Captain Beaten said that the Auckland stevedores had taken 10 days to discharge a consignment of timber from the Loch Don. Only nine slings had been required to load the same cargo into the vessel at Vancouver. Captain Beaten emphasised that i. r tramp shipping was to compete successfully in Britain's colonial trade the men who handled cargo must give a "fair deal."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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131"FAIR DEAL" NEEDED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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