DISPUTE ENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 11

DISPUTE ENDS.

SHIPS TO SAIL.

CONFERENCE AGREED TO.

WAI MARINO FOR AUCKLAND.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day,

The dispute between the Union Steam Ship Company and the Cooks and Stewards' Union, which has led to the paying off of five passenger and cargo vessels at Wellington and delay to another, was settled yesterday afternoon. The union has agreed to man all vessels which have been affected by the hold-up, and a conference between parties to discuss the question of wages will be held next month.

The first vessel to benefit by the settlement of the dispute is the Waimarino, which had been held up at Wellington since Monday through being unable to replace her cook, who went ashore sick. Another cook was supplied late yesterday afternoon by the union, and the Waimarino, which carries a large shipment of potatoes from Lyttelton for the Auckland market, left last night for Auckland.

Of tlie other vessels affected, the Kaimai and the Iviwitea arc expected to recommission during the next day or two. The ferry steamer Maori, which was to leave Wellington on June 9 for Lyttelton, in place of the Waliine, is also expected to recommission this week, but no definite date is yet available.

The Royal Mail steamer Makura, it is understood, is to make a trip in the intercolonial service before she re-enters the San Francisco mail service, leaving Wellington on July 10, but in her case also no definite sailing date has been fixed. The Monowai and Maunganui are at present undergoing overhaul and survey at Wellington. The Monowai, on her present schedule, is to resume running in the intercolonial service on August 10 from Wellington, and the Maunganui's next trip to San Francisco will be from Wellington on August 7.