THEATRE SCENERY.
EN ROUTE TO THE WHAHF.
Some trouble arose in connection with the unloading of a lorry-load of the Royal Comic Opera Company's scenery, whioh was to bo shipped to Lyttelton by the Monowai. After a parley with the union officials, the latter consented to allow tho scenery to bo shipped, if handled only by tho Opera House staff and ship's crow. Their only restriction was —"No scab labour I" When this news was communicated to the crowd) they were not at all unanimous' in the course tho officials -had adopted 1 . "Why this cargo moro than any other?" one watersider asked. "Are you getting a free pass?" said another. "Stop all work 1" yelled a third. But by this time the official had departed, and a start was made by a gang of scene-shiftors to unload tho "flats" on to tho wliarf.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 25 October 1913, Page 6
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144THEATRE SCENERY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 25 October 1913, Page 6
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