“BLACK” CARGO
FRUIT EX MONTEREY. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 25. ’ Between 300 and 400 cases of oranges, lemons and grapefruit consigned to Christchurch and Dunedin are held up at Wellington. The fruit was loaded on the Matson liner Monterey at Los Angeles by non-union labour, and when the vessel reached Auckland last Friday week the watersiders there would not handle the cargo which was put ashore by the ship’s crew and Harbour Board hands. The fruit was then railed to Wellington, but attempts to ship it south by the inter-island steamers have been frustrated by the local watersiders who refuse to handle the cargo which has been declared “black.” On one occasion the fruit is said to have been loaded on a south bound steamer, when an order came to unload it again, otherwise graver trouble might have ensued.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19835, 26 June 1934, Page 8
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140“BLACK” CARGO Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19835, 26 June 1934, Page 8
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