BRITISH SHIPS
"SHOCKING CONDITIONS"
The hope that the New Zealand Government would take up with the United Kingdom Government the question of the "shocking conditions" which he said prevailed 'on many of the British ships trading between New Zealand and England was expressed by the Hon. T. F. Doyle (Southland) in the Legislative Council last night, speaking on the Finance Bill No. 3.
Mr. Doyle said he had had occasion to visit ships trading between New Zealand and Britain, and he considered that the conditions under which sailors, firemen, and greasers lived aboard them was really shocking. The men were housed in cold forecastles with little or no sanitary conveniences, and the quality and quantity of the food could be improved. A ship's butcher had expressed amazement to him at the bulls' head and cows' feet sent into the ship's freezer to make stock for the crew. The men of the Merchant Navy were doing a wonderful job and the time had arrived when the.conditions on British ships should b« improved.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 4
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