Tuesday, November 2, 2010

MUSICAL CHAIRS AT THE PORT CORPORATION


GO ON HOLIDAYS OR ABSENT YOURSELF FROM THE OFFICE AT THE DARWIN PORT CORPORATION AND YOU MAY FIND THAT MORE THAN THE POTPLANTS AND PAPERCLIPS WERE REARRANGED WHILE YOU WERE AWAY. READERS WILL RECALL WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RESPECTED , LONGTIME DARWIN PORT HARBOURMASTER , BRUCE WILSON, WHO RECEIVED A SIGNAL WHEN HE WAS OVERSEAS INFORMING HIM THAT THERE HAD BEEN CHANGES BACK AT THE WHARF APRON , AND HE WAS REDUCED TO BEING ONE OF THE PORT’S PILOTS. A LEGAL MATTER ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF WILSON APPARENTLY ESCAPED THE ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA WHEN LISTED FOR HEARING LAST MONTH.


THE CITY WHARVES PRECINCT MANAGER RECENTLY RETURNED FROM A BREAK TO DISCOVER THAT DURING HER ABSENCE A NEW OVERSEEING POST, GENERAL MANAGER CITY WHARVES , WHICH SOUNDED VERY MUCH LIKE HER POSITION, HAD BEEN ADVERTISED .THIS NEW POSITION IS HELD BY ONE PETER RAINES .OUT OF RETIREMENT, HIS APPOINTMENT WAS ANNOUNCED OCTOBER 7 . A FORMER JOINT OWNER OF THE BANK OF QUEENSLAND DARWIN FRANCHISE, EX MANAGING DIRECTOR OF STERLING PROPERTY SERVICES NT, AND SAID TO BE EXPERIENCED IN CONTRACT MANAGEMENT, HE WAS THE CHAIRMAN , CULLEN BAY MARINE MANAGEMENT