INDUSTRIAL STOPPAGE WITH UNUSUAL CAUSE
Keeeived Sunday, 7 p.m. SY'DNRY, August 11. Mites living 011 wheat wecvils reeentty caused " two industrial stoppages among watersiders loading coal in.inter.State shipu, according to Dr. A. C. Arnold, in the Medical Journal of Australia. Workers developed a rasli wliile trimluing eoal in the ships. whieh iiad earried bulk wheat during.the war. Smali quantities of .weevily . wheat remained on the beams and ledges and tlie eoal drove the weevils aud ..mites out. The workers were treated, the ships sprayed with a pest exterminutor, and work was resumed without further .ineident.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1946, Page 7
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