EFFECT OF DOCKERS' STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1237, 20 September 1911, Page 4

EFFECT OF DOCKERS' STRIKE.

Will be felt in new Zealand,

Importers from England in Wellington and other New Zealand centres are boinmiinß to feel the effect of Hits recent dockers' strike, nt Home. The Rotonin, which arrived from London yesterday, was tlic ln.M; direct steamer to leave l» fore the strike, nml oven in her case a lot of cargo had to l>o shut out owiijb to tho heavy shipments for New Zealand, chiefly iii soft goods for (ho new fousoh. After tho. Rolnrun comes a break, for Iho next direct steamer to arrive will be the White Star liner lonic, not duo until about October 23-a lapse of over a month, instead of the usual fortnight. This cloloy was occasioned by the stride, ana will at. feet imjnrlw—mostly the Hail houses, we are infovmocl, as tlioy buy and snip a little later than Hio wholesale house?. Une Koutleinnn in a responsible |>ositinn in one of the larijest drapery houses in town informed a Dominion- reporter that they would bo from thren weeks lo a inonlll behind with certain of their summer KAKIs, owing to tin- strike. They had lxvn advised Hint Hie i;oods were all rwidy tor shipment in the packing voonie and at I no docks when the strike put a Mop to all the work, and tho orders simply had, to "coinrer-t" until a -Hlloment "as arrived at. aiid tho stores could lie cleared. So il is not ohlv Hie delay caused by tho detention of the steamer which has to to taken into neconnt, but tho mountains of stuff (hat nccumiiliilml diirim? (lie suspension of work winch had to b« cleared uff. in addition to the normal traffic, when the strike came to an end. Importing houses in other brandies of trade :ire sure to bo uifli'o or less aflecled by delayed shipments for tho same reason.