N.Z. WATERFRONT WORK
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Shipping Man's Complaint
(Bj- I'eleRraph-
r , AUCKLAND, Last Night. Criticism of the scandard of work of New Zealand' watersiders was made by Mr.. C. M. Turrel), -general manager and ditector of the .New Zealand • Ship-ping^-Company,- who returned to the Dominion by.the Awatea -aftbr-a business. and holiday visit to England. Mr. Turrell said . costs against shipowners had gone up in an extraordinary manner and as far as New ZealatU trade was concerncd, ; practically no ships'were being built other- than those which had been ordefed priOr to these rises.- -The building programmes of the •Various compani'es had- been delayed. One • of the wors't f eatures of the situation for owners' in' the New Zea* ' land trade was the poor work which v/a's given by : watersiders 'in the Dominion. ' Mr. Turrell added: "A New Zealand watersider can do just as good work as anybody, and he used ' to do so." He said the position had changed, however. The standard of -work waa poor and.Tyas not what the companiea wsre entitlcd to especially with the wages they were paying. In Australia, England and elsewhere, much better work was done by the same clas« of meni
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 3
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