FERRY STEAMER DELAYED.
COMING DOWN" UMJER REDUCED I'OWF/K. O'EfS ASSOCIATION TEI.ECBAMS.) ' WELLINGTON, December 10. *'no t^"- v st( ' :ini 'T Maori was delawd Mil tonight. The vessel's articles expired to-day, and all signed oil again except four firemen. One of +fc JSO , n .'i°' UL> d at seven o'clock, and ttiree trimmers were offered promotion to firemen, so that three soldiers going »outh could sign on as trimmers lor tne trip. The trimmers, however, objected to promotion under these conditions. Eventually, as the vacancies in the stokehold could i.ot be tilled, it ,vas decided that the vessel should proI*?d to Lyttelton under two-thirds of "Sir boiler power, and she got away at
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15459, 11 December 1915, Page 11
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