Tahiti Waterside Workers
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IT had taken only three days for water side workers at Papeete, Tahiti, to unload more than 1,300,000 super ft. of timber from the Swedish motorship, Barranduna, the Master (Cap. C. P.
Gartz) said at Port Adelaide at the end of March.
The Barranduna, then in Adelaide, SA, had been discharging timber in Australia since January 26, when she reached Syd ney from Los Angeles, he said.
Because of slow turn-around of ships in Australian ports and the current NZ wharfies’ strike, European shipowners are refusing to send their ships to these countries.