AT DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 November 1913, Page 5

AT DUNEDIN.

SW FARING IN SPECIAL CONSTABLES. PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORK DUNEDnf! Last Night. The swearing-in of special constables preliminary to resuming work on the wharves proceeded briskly yesterday, when 216 were sworn in. The swearing-in continued to-day, when several more were enrolled. It is understood that 110 work will be done on the wharves to-morrow. Eighteen of the Union Company's officers who were idle in Dunedin left for Lyttelton on Saturday, having offered their services to the compsuiy. To get over the difficulty of selecting a particular class of work, it was decided that the work lie balloted for. The result was that some captains were allotted work in the stokehold, or other minor duties on ;the run to Wellington, for the time, '■being occupying inferior positions to the mates on duty. A well attended meeting of-the Drivers' Union was held on Friday night, and it is stated that .mutters took a, fairly lively turn on more than one occasion.

The position was discussed at length, and it was decided to issue no instructions to the members as to the handling of cargo discharged by arbitration labour, each member being allowed to act on hi- own discretion. It. is 'understood that a motion was proposed in favour of secession from the Federation of Labour, but that it

was defeated. The stock of coal at tiro gasworks is sufficient to last until the end of February at the rate of the present consumption—2so tons per week.