PLENTY OF WHARF LABOUR OFFERING

Chronicle (Levin), 13 April 1946, Page 8

PLENTY OF WHARF LABOUR OFFERING

-Press Association

WORK AT AUCKLAND

Bu Telegraph-

AUCKLAND., April 12. . This weekend will see a reductiqn in, the number of" vessels crowding the port. Th.e number of ships at anchor in the stream will also be reduced. Bteadyprogress was made today with the thousanda of vons of car'goes on the waterfront. Calls for additional wharf labe.ur tpade by the Waterfront Control Commission received a.n overwhelming answer. At the morning call a total of 300 noa-union workers was engaged, .but there was not sufticient work for another 250. More than £7000 in wages was lost by members of the Auckland branch of the Waterside Workers' Union, iu the dispute which help "up the waterfront for three working days this week." It is eslimated that the figure, with the inclusion of noa-union labour, wouid reach £8300. Because of the serious port eongesr tioa, the Norvvegian moto.rship Troja was diverted from Auckland to Napier with her cargo from Scandinayia, Antwerp, Lisbon and South Africa. The Troja, which was expected to leave Brisbane on Thursdav for Auckland, wil-l now discharge all her New Zealand cargo at Napier, from which port it will be transhipped. More than 700 tons of cargo, including wood products from Sweden and cork from Lisbon, are for Auckland. They will be carried in two voyages from Napier by the Richardson Line motor-vessel Pukeko. The Troja, whicji is carrying a small number of passengers from South Africa ^ and Australia, wa§, originally seheduled to visit Auckland and Wellington, but bot.h these ports have now been by-passed in favonr of Napier.