"The position isn't desperate yet, but we are "finding it 'increasingly difficult to arrange charters because of Auckland's bad reputation as a port," said a Colonial Sugar Refinirw Company official yesterday moxning , when asked whether the Broompark hold-up was affecting the working of the refinery at Chelsea. The Broompark, which arrived from Cairns on June 22, still has 8500 tons of sugar in her holds, but watersiders have refused to lift her hatches manually. It is estimated that it would take at least three weeks to have this sugar unloa'ded, and in the meantime another vessel, the Belos, from Cairns, is dtte on August 1. If the dispute is not settled by the time the Belos arrive s the Broompark, it is thought, may go to an anchorage in the stream to allow the Belos to berth.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1948, Page 4
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