THE SHIPPING TRADE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1399, 7 August 1918, Page 11

THE SHIPPING TRADE.

AGENTS' APPEAL UPHELD.

An appeal was made before the Second Canterbury Military Service Board to-day by Frederick Ernest Sutton, shipping agent, Lyttelton. Mr A. F. Wright appeared on behalf of the appellant, who said that he had been in the shipping business since he was a boy. He was agent for six coastal steamers, three oversea vessels, and stevedore and agent in Lyttelton for the British and Imperial Oil Company. He considered that quite 80 per cent, of the shipping trade between Greymouth and Lyttelton passed through his hands. Joseph Garrard, manager in Lyttelton for Kinsey & Co., said that there was a difficulty in the port in carrying on shipping work owing to the depletion of staffs. lie had known 3pi>ellant sine* he first entered the business, and did not think that he could be replaced. Thet,. work demanded a general knowledge which could be acquired in time, and also a special local knowledge. Therefore, in his opinion, a man from another port could not carry on the work satisfactorily. Appellant's work was most essential in the coastal shipping trade. Captain F. A. Hutchison, agent at Lyttelton for the Blackball Coal Company, and Hnntly Eliott, manager at Christohurch for the New Zealand Shipping Company, endorsed the previous statements, and said that they did not consider that the appellant could be re-

placed. The appeal was adjourned sine die.