CARGO HANDLING
GREAT INCREASE IN COSTS SINCE 1935 REPORTS TO WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD. FINDINGS OF COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Special reports presented to the Wellington Harbour Board last night showed that since 1935 the cost of handling English and foreign cargo had increased by 95 per cent. Among six factors set out as contributing to the increased cost, three related to wage increases; another was the slower rate of handling cargo. The rate for a gang an hour was 16.56 tons in 1935; in 1940 it was 12.60 tons, and for nine months of 1941, 12.44 tons. Other factors to which attention was drawn as influencing the handling rate and increasing labour costs were the slower rate of night and overtime handling. In these respects, fatigue after a hard day’s work and the limitations of artificial light were referred to among other matters. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1941, Page 4
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146CARGO HANDLING Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1941, Page 4
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