WILLING HANDS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3298, 9 August 1943, Page 3

WILLING HANDS

UNLOADING OF THE SHIPS

EQUIPMENT FOR TROOPS MAIL, VEHICLES AND GUNS (Official War Correspondent N.Z.E.F.) New Caledonia. Down in the holds of a Liberty ship lay row upon row a Army motor transport loaded with crates of equipment marked for the use of the New Zealanders on this island. The floodlit wharf and ship were scenes of efficient activity as the blurred camouflaged trucks swung one by one from hold to wharf, were seized upon by New Zealand drivers, checked through the dock gates, and assembled for despatch, to ordnance and units. The ship which brought the latest vehicles for this Division began unloading soon after dark. The staff of Movement Control were ready for it, and worked throughout the night until the last vestige of cargo destined for the Dominion troops had been accounted for. Staff-Sergeant E. Rigg is chief “off-sider” to the Movement Control Officer, Captain W. Wright. Staff-Sergeant Rigg was a well-known member of the Tourist Department before the war and had spent the last few years at the Sydney office. With him are A. McNab, of Wellington, and G. J. Donoghue, of Christchurch. Long shifts mean no overtime to these men, whose sole pre-occupation when ships arrive is to get their cargo away as soon as possible and in good order and condition. The unloading of this last ship took about eighteen hours, which allowed the staff a break of only about two hours each during the day and night.

By the time the Movement Control officials had a chance to snatch their sleep, these brand new trucks were miles away in convoy. Each one had received a preliminary check of batteries, petrol, and oil as it had come off the ship, and had minor adjustments made by ordnance personnel where necessary, and had been taken over by the detachment of drivers especially assigned to the job.

And Movement Control settled down to routine again, waiting for the next ship with its cargo of mail, vehicles, guns, equipment or soldiers. Movement Control handles jthe lot. 'Reinforcement drafts of men as well as machinery are grist to its mill.

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