THE SHIPPING STRIKE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4887, 7 October 1925, Page 2

THE SHIPPING STRIKE.

HOLDING UP OF PRODUCE. MANNING THE SHIPS. The following resolution was carried by the directors of the Hauraki Plains Co-operative Dairy Co., Turua. on Saturday and telegraphed to the Prime Minister on Monday morning : •‘That the Governmet be urged to immediately .take such steps as may be necessary to have all ocean steamers loaded with produce and proceed overseas ,at pee .as the position of dairy farmers relying on monthly advances makes some ’such action imperative, and that this company will wholly support the Government in any measures that it may adopt.” In response ,to a telegram from the secretary of the Dairy Produce Control Board urging .the necessity ot making a list of those men of the district who would volunteer to go overseas as deckhands, stokers, etc., Mr J. E. Green, secretary of the company, yesterday enrolled two young Turua men. Several others are talking of signing on, but no more have been reported to have enrolled. A further telegram yesterday mentioned stewards as being required. ‘ During the. last two weeks the Hauraki Plains factory has shipped 200 crates of cheese a week to Auckland. At present the make of the factory is 28 or 29 crates a day. The N.Z. Cooperative Dairy Company’s Huirau Road factory is making about 15 crates a day, and the Ngatea butter factory about 200 boxes. About 800 boxes of butter were shipped from Ngatea on Tuesday bight.