DUNEDIN SCENES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 7

DUNEDIN SCENES.

HIGH PRAISE FOR NEW WORKERS (By Telegraph—Press Association.; Dunedin, November 21. The Moeraki is still tied up' at the Bircli Street Wharf, and will remain there until the seamen and firemen provide hero with a crew. The position of the Seamen's Uuioii is that they say individually that thoy do not want to ship. This morning Arbit'rationists started work 011 the Corinna, putting into her transhipments ex Warrimoo, Monowai, and Moeraki, The hulk Fe» licita was warped alongside the Corinna to give her CO tons of coal wherewith to steam |to Wellington, fro in which port transhipments will be distributed. Nobody interfered with these operations. No carrying was going on this morning from tho sheds and apparently there is nothing iii the sheds that merchants want at once. Both tho watorsido hotel's arc still closed. The chairman af tho Harbour Hoard has countermanded tho notice that vas served upon the watersiders to quit the board's old building. Captain Collins, of the Moeraki, expressed himself as quite satisfied with tho work dono by the Arbitrationists on the ship"lf you ask me how the men got on, my answor is that they put out 800 tons of cargo as quickly as 1 an ordinary gang would, that thoy did not break a case, and that the goods wero particularly well placed in the sheds." Tlio stocks of coal, in Bimediii haveonly been drawn upon economically attd are holding out well. Merchants now hold no sugar, but. a small shipment- is expected from Auckland at the end of next week. It is said that tapioca and dried fruits aro running low, yet the merchants have not,, as a body, put up the prico, and tlier© is no prospect of the market becoming reallj' bare for two or three weeks. Between 12 and 1 o'clock a largo number of strikers congregated at the barricade behind tho Harbour Board offices, and the rumour was bruited abroad that the Arbitrationists Working the Gorinna were coming out. Ono man did come out and, after two conferences with tho strikers, retired to the ship and returned with. his coat, receiving a cheer as lie emerged from tho gates, this defection was more than counterbalanced, as threo new Arbitrationists commenced work this morning. This afternoon, in response to an announcement that the Corinna would receive Wellington cargo, full drays and expresses passed uninterrupted, to tho ship. Her early departure is expected.