SPEEDED UP
DISPATCH OF OVERSEA
SHIPS
THREE-SHIFT LOADING.
IMPORTANT GAINS MADE & IN PROSPECT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 1
A saving of four days on a ship was being achieved by the adoption of the shift system on the waterfront, said the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, at the opening of the Hawera Show tonight, when he dealt extensively with the need for an increased cheese production and the expeditious dispatch of overseas ships. Mr Nash said the cost to the Government of the change-over necessary to produce the increased cheese quota was £380,000 for this season alone. Cooperation received from the dairy industry had to be followed by co-op-eration on the waterfront and quicker dispatch was already being achieved. “The speed-up on the waterfront has been 25 per cent,” said, Mr Nash. “Three shifts a day are being worked, and in one loading alone there was a saving of four days in the period a ship was on the New Zealand coast. He was informed that a saving of 10 days would be the equivalent of two and a half million tons of shipping.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 4
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