WATERFRONT DISPUTE.
Work Ceases at Gisborne. Press Association —Copyright. Gisborne, April 7. When the small motor-vessel Koau, of 144 tons, ai/lvAd at Gisborne on Friday a dispulo aiose on the waterfront about unloading, and no work has been done since. The watersiders claim the right to do all work on all vessels under the award, but the own ers prefer to carrp on as formerly, with the crew assisting in unloading vessels of up to 275 tons. The vessel had ..on board six tons of rock lime consigied to the Kaiti freezing works. To-day' this became heated, and to avoid fear of danger to the ship the Koau was taken to sea and the lime dumped, the vessel then returning to the wharf.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 402, 8 April 1937, Page 5
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123WATERFRONT DISPUTE. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 402, 8 April 1937, Page 5
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