Bluff dispute settled

Press, 26 April 1979, Page 6

Bluff dispute settled

PA Invercargill ) Peace has fallen on the Bluff waterfront over the un-i loading of the West German! fish processing factory j Wesermunde, all parties • pledging to do their utmost to avoid further disputes. Steps are also being taken; to have informal discussions: with any outside interests! wishing to set up fishings ventures locally, which might | prevent the sort of trouble the Wesermunde has experi-j enced. The moves result from a meeting at Bluff on Tuesday at which the latest wrangle. o\er cool store working was settled. A former Mayor of Bluff., Mr W. R. Johns, the chair-; man of the Port Conciliation: Committee, chaired the 1

i meeting in an unofficial capacity. ) “With all the parties, we I were able to have a full, I frank discussion on everything,” said Mr Johns. The agreement says that) ! any covered vehicle used for [ II conveying frozen fish from I >jthe ship’s side to the cool| ;store will not involve water;I siders, but any uncovered : I vehicle used for conveying ; frozen fish shall have tar- ■! paulins removed by a memjber or members of the! 11 Waterside Workers’ Union.) Any machines used for un-I :) loading from the ship’s side) ;’to the cool store shall be) driven by a member of the I .(New Zealand Harbour Board: - Employees’ Union, i: Breaking down or restor-! ring pallets within the physi-i

cal confines of the cool store shall be the work of high seas fisheries and a member or members of the appropriate union, which is the Otago-Southland Manufacturing Chemists, Preserves, Jam, and Starch Workers’ I Union.