CREW LEAVES SHIP

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 5

CREW LEAVES SHIP

t'regs Aesociation.l

Question in the House waterfront dilatoriness

(By I'elesraph

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The action of the crew of the Watchlin Line niotor-ship Port Tauranga in walking oil the ship at Tokomaru Bay and leaving the vessel in imminent peril from rising seas was referrcd to by Mr J. Hargest (Nat., Invercargill), in a notice of a question addressed to the Minister of Marine, the Hon. P. Fraser, in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr Hargest asked the Minister if he would take whatever steps were necessary to prevent recurrence of an action that might resulfc in the loss of a valuable ship. Mr W. J. Polson (Nat-, Stratford), asked the Prime Minister an urgent question— if he was aware of the conditions under which New Zealand produce was being loa,ded on the waterr front to-day, which, he said,, weie worse than those a year ago owfng to stoppages of work and dilatoriness. Ho asks ed if the Prime Minister wotild take steps to intitate a drastic inquiry into the matter. Mr Savage, in repl,y said he was not aware that the conditions referred to by Mr Polson were worse than a year ago, and he was not prepared to accept Mr Polson 's assertions to that effect. He was aware of what was going on on the waterfront, and intimated that the Government was making an investigation into the whole position.