WHARF LABOURERS STOP WORK

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 170, 12 April 1919, Page 6

WHARF LABOURERS STOP WORK

AN INFLUENZA SC'AEE. The 'wharf labourers discharging iliQ cargo of the Huddart-l'arker steamer Ilivcerina at (lie Queens' 'Wharf stopped work at (i.30 o'clock last night without previous notice, it having come to their cars that earlier in the day nue of the crow of the vessel had been takou to tliu Hospital in a condition eußgestinjj iniluenza. The mail in question—a steward—in response to a request for mcdical attention, was visited by a doctor, who found hiui to be suffering from what appeared to a Blight cold. As is the usual practice in the case of men on ships fcgling unwell,-lie was sent to the Hospital to be kept under observation. He was taken lrom the ship between live and six o'clock in the evening, and when the watersiders heard of his removal shortly after resumption of work, they walked off the vessel. The liivcrinu arrived at this port from Sydney on 'Wednesday morning, and during her period of twenty-four hours' quarantine was boarded twice by the official doctor. There was in each instance no sign of influenza symptoms, and the vessel berthed on Thursday morning. A doctor was a passenger on'the ship, and he had no complaints from any of those on board o£ having developed an abnormal temperature. That the Hivsrina had been aloneside the wharf for over thirty hours in considered proof enough that the cc Id affecting the steward was not brought from Sydney.