Ferry mix-up claimed
PA Wellington The Railways Corporation and the Cooks and Stewards’ Union said yesterday that they tried to get in touch with each other to avoid stranding almost 900 ferry passengers at the Wellington wharves on Monday. But both sides said they had failed. The communication breakdown left 897 people aboard the ferries Arahura and Arahanga for up to five hours. The secretary of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, Mr David Graham,
said he had called a stopwork meeting for 8.30 a.m. to discuss a large agenda, including award talks that began at 10 a.m. yesterday. When it became obvious the meeting would continue past the 10 a.m. scheduled sailing time of the Arahura, he had tried to call the Railways to warn the management. “I couldn’t get through on the telephone exchange. I rang and rang and rang,” he said.
The head of Railways’ searail section, Mr Jim
Mills, said yesterday that he had called the union office and all the venues the meeting was likely to be held in to try to find out how long the cooks and stewards would be meeting, but with no result. Mr Mills said of Mr Graham’s problem with the Railways telephone exchange, “I have no comment except to say I have a direct line to my office and Mr Graham knows the number ... I was in my office all the morning.”
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Press, 12 February 1986, Page 3
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