DELAYED BY STRIKE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 193, 29 May 1934, Page 8

DELAYED BY STRIKE.

UNITED STATES WATERFRONT.

. PACIFIC COAST STEAMERS. (Per Press Association). ■;-:-. '•■' , AUCKLAND, May 28. The waterfront strike which is holding up over 100 ships at ports on' the Pacific Coast of the United States is not expected! to affect the Oceanic Line steamer Monterey, which is scheduled to sail from San Francisco for Sydney and Melbourne, via Los Angeles, Honolulu, Pago Pago, Suva and Auckland, on May 30. Earlier reports stated that half the crew had walked off the ship and that •she might consequently be held up, but the local agents, Henderson ami Macfarlane, Ltd;,"have received advice that she is expected to sail on her scheduled date. Two cargo steamers loading for New Zealand and Australian ports are delayed in the Pacific Coast by the strike. The Union Company's steamer Waiherno, which was to. sail from Los Angeles "on May 20 for Rarotonga, Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lytteiton, Dunedin, Melbourne and Sydney, is at San Francisco, jvhere the longshoremen's strike first broke out, but the latest advice received by the local

•office of the cpmpany is that she is expected to leave there in a few days. 1 According to her original! schedule, she was due at Auckland on June 14, but she will be at least a week late. At Tacoma, the loading of the 0. and 0. Line steamer Golden Cloud: for New Zealand and Australian ports has been interrupted the strike. This vessel, which Avas scheduled to load at Vancouver, feaii Francisco and Los Angeles after Tacoma, and clear Los Angeles vn June 1 for Auckland, Wellington and Australian ports, arriving here on June 27, will also be late.