MORE SHIPS MANNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 273, 17 November 1922, Page 5

MORE SHIPS MANNED.

SEVEN STEAMERS OBTAIN CREWS. DAPHNE, WAIOTAHL TANIWHA TO SAIL. THREE UNION VESSELS ALSO TO BE DISPATCHED. i . | The .Shipping Federation, owing to the good response to the call for voluntary labour, is quickly overcoming the difficulty occasioned by the seamen's strike, and crews haws now been secured for seven steamers —three belonging to t he Union Steamship Company, a similar number owned by the Northern Steamship Company, and one of Messrs. ■Richardson nnd (V.mpairy's flev.'t. Yesterday a crew wast obtained for the Navua, which trades to the Western Pacific Islands, and it was hoped to dis-patch-her to-morrow, her due sailing date. However, owing to the waterside workers ceasing their employment in connection with this vessel, and the large amount of cargo offering, it is impossible to get her away until Monday. If the waterside workers had continued yesterj day the Navua would have sailed tomorrow. The men resumed work on the vessel this morning. The Tvaituna went out to an anchor in the stream at noon to-day, and as a crew has been obtained for her it is expected to dispatch her tomorrow for Portland. The Kurow is being loaded for Southern ports, but on account of the large quantity of cargo offering she will not leave till Monday. The 'Northern Steamship Company has secured crews for tho Dapnne. Waiotahi, and Taniwha. and it is hoped to get all these steamers away for various ports i to-morrow. The Daphne is timed to sail 11 for the Whangarei Town wharf at 8.30 j a.m., and as she has accommodation for 107 passengers this will he a good opportunity for those people who have been ■neld tip to get to the Northern town. The Waiotahi is timed to sail for Coroinandel at 12.45 p.m., and the Taniwha will leave for Paeroa and Thames at noon. -She will take cargo and passcn- . gers for Paeroa, and will call at Thames on the way down to land passengers. The Pono, an auxiliary vessel, leaves today for Mercury Bay ana Tairua with general cargo, and will relieve the congestion that has arisen at the Tairua butter factory owing to no vessel having called there for three weeks. The Paroto leaves for Kussell, Opua, Whangaroa, and Mangonui to-day with foodstuffs only, while the Elsie is also to proceed to Kopu and Tairua to-day with general cargo. The small steamer Omuiu will leave for Waiheke only to-morrow. Messrs. Richardson and Company's Awahou obtained a full crew and sailed for Tokomaru Bay, Tolago Bay, and talis borne last evening.* Matters on the waterfront are proceedj ing quietly, the waterside workers being l employed on the Navua, Kurow, and Home vessels that are loading or discharging. The Matoppo is due from New York to-morrow evening with general cargo from New York, and she will provide additional employment. I The Northern Steamship" Company ■ denies that its permanent staff has given ! a week's notice. I

j MCKETOTG IN WELLINGTON. NO INTERFERENCE WITH MEN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The response to the shipowners' call for volunteers to set the ships at work I again has been very good locally, and includes a good proportion of men who have had extensive experience at sea. Several men who registered their names declared that they were sick of being out of work and were determined to 11 take any job which might be going. ij Cirba Street, where the shipping labour office has been established by the I Shipowners' Federation, was this morn- [ ing the Mecca of large numbers of sea- , farers who have thrown up their em- , ployment, and a close watch was kept on all men entering the shipping office 1 by knots of firemen, sailors, and waterI aiders, who were scattered a.bout. , Peaceful picketing was apparently the , order of the day. No attempt was made in any way to interfere with the men who were going to look for work, and two policemen who patrolled the pavements in the vicinity of the office had a very quiet time. The wharves have still rather an idle appearance. Precautions are being taken t 0 see that nothing in the nature of a demonstration takes place. A barricade has been placed in position near the entrance gates to Queen's . wharf, and policemen were on duty i there this morning. • : The Union .Steam Ship Company an- ! nounced that in future the Mararoa t j would leave Wellington at 5 p.m. on - [Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for • i Lvttelton, instead of at 7.45 p.m. -j Mr. T. O. Bishop, secretary of the j Shipowners' Federation, stated that j! plenty of men were offering for work on • I the ships at Napier and Lyttelton. and >j at all other ports. There were eight .vessels in Wellington taking in cargo, i ! Crews for these ships had been obtained. . The vessels would sail as soon as they > were loaded. It is the intention of Messrs. Banna- > tyne and Co. to maintain the Nelson , service at all costs. If unionists will . | not offer themselves for service, other i i labour will be sought. Ij : I i VEIL OF SECRECY. t '.- STILL KEPT DRAWN. •■j WELLINGTON. Thursday. I The intention of the seamen and fire- ' | men to try to hold up the shipping scr- ! vices of the country still appears to he as determined as ever. No indication U .'yet forthcoming as to the attitude of the r ; Seamen's I'nion to the situation, which r is now developing, but there appears to ! be some resentment at the action of the ( . 1 men who are volunteering for positions on ship-. ' Mr. W. T. Young, secretary of the , union, refuses 'o a" drawn in any way, .and still decline* t 0 make any public statement. There has been a meeting of , seamen, and another meeting is called for to-morrow. The policy of silence which the seamen's officials arc adopting could scarcely be better preserved, but there seems to lie a feeling that the union i<. like Mk-aw-brr, waiting tor c something to turn up. {. At Napier the water-sider* have rev fiired to handle cargo for boats manned j liy volunteers, but no trouble has been jj experienced in this direction in Wellington. No official advice has ben received , by. the headquarters of the. Waterside fforkf'i' Federation regarding the posi- " tion at Napier. It would appear that r the Napier men have acted purely on their own account.