CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14829, 21 November 1913, Page 10

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

; DEFENDER LOADING FOR WESTPORT. BY PERMISSION OF STRIKERS. -A starfc was made yesterday afternoon to discharge the timber from the small steairior Defender, which arrived at Lyttelton last Saturday from-Hoki-tika, via Westport. The vessel put into Westport, on her .way round, for .bunker coal, but she was riot permitted by the strikers to ship supplies. Now, however, the "boot is on the other foot." Thero is a serious shortage of food in the Westport district, and evidently acting on advice received from that port, the-local Strike Committeo has consented to tho discharge of the Defender's timber, in order that she may load stores-for Westport. Tho master and officers of the little steamer were passing the timber up from tho ship to the railway,men in the trucks. The Defender will • probably sail tomorrow with a full load of .stores and produce for . Westport.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, November 20. Mr P. H. Hickey, secretary of .the Federation of Labour, informed a reporter to-day that the waterside workers who are out at Lyttelton have decided to unload timber from the steamer Defender at that port, and load her with foodstuffs and find a crew to take her to AVestport, to relieve the position thero so far as food supplies are concerned. This, says Mr Hickey, has been done with the consent of the executive.