DUNEDIN DULL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 8

DUNEDIN DULL.

HARBOUR BOARD MEN AFFECTED. (By TclcErapb.—Press Association,) Dunotiln, November 6. Everything was quiet to-day. wharves ivere cleared by a pitiless rain. A quantity of linen ex. Mooraki, tlio transfer of which to tho laundry cart f was stopped yesterday, svas landed this afternoon. All the Harbour Board's operations have been stopped save tho 50 at Lftith Can il, and , 011 Bredfte iOt. Hie clerical staff to been, reduccdfour. Tho only revenue accruing is by Way of rentals, and it is ea.kijla'Ved that oven with a summary curtailment of outgoing cspeiis.es tho board will bp going £1.00 3 week "to tilie bad," while tho present conditions obtain-, At Port Chalmers evofythwg. was quiet. Owing to tho Harbour Board's retrenchment policy their labourers have been paid off, and permanent officials at the docka and 011 t.ko tugs aro taking their annual holidays in batches of two or threa at. a tiiue. There was a eveat crowd on tlio railway platform this morning to sen tho second express leaved for Lyttelton. Anionget tho passtngors word Messrs, ■

W. Beldher, W. Clarke, and F. 0. Smith. These aro the delegates appointed by the Dunodin branch of the Seamen's Union to go to Wellington. Many of the North Island .pictures intended for the Otago Art Society's annual exhibition •' are amongst' 'the blocked cargo at Wellington.