HIGHER SHIPPING FREIGHTS
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Threatencd Action by N.Z. Companies WATERFRONT TROUBLE
(By Telesrrapb
WELLINGTON, 'AUIB uaj. The major shipping companies expressed grave dissatisfaction to-day with the present .conditions of yat9r* side work> and it was stated that, If t _ e position does not improve eQnsiderably •in the near future, .an inerease m freight xates will have to be ^ brouglit into operation to oombat .the high costs of working ships while in port. The tques.tion was bronght to a head by a decision of the Wellington Watersi.ders' Union to refuse to work ships in the port this afternoon. The reason given was that they wisbed to attend the funeral of a watersider who was accidentally killed while engaged in working o.n the Karamea. The loss of five hours will result in eonsiderable congestion early next wee'k. VeBsele delayed inclnde the Tainni, whieh was to have sailed this afternoon for Lyttelton, but will now not leave till 5 p.m. on Monday at the eafliest, and the Wainui, which was to have left for Napier to-day, and. is now delayed till Monday. Others affected are the Karu, the Kairanga, the Poolta and the Karepo. The Waiana leavea this afternoon for Auckland without a eonsiderable quantity of caxgo.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 5
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