TROOPS COMPLAIN
DOMINION MONARCH New Zealanders Refused To Work On Ship N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. Complaining of bad accommodation on the Dominion Monarch, which arrived at Sydney yesterday from New Zealand, Australian servicemen said that when they went aboard they made it o.uite clear that they were not going to do the ship's work, and they were not asked to do it. "However, mere was trouble with the New Zealanders," said an Australian ex-prisoner. "They were ordered to polish the rails and stairs and sweep the decks. They refused, and stuck together. They said it was the crew's job. Some of them were put in gaol, but they did not do the work."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 5
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