MOERAKI TO SAIL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17408, 20 March 1922, Page 6

MOERAKI TO SAIL.

c . MA2TNINO DIFFIOtJLTr SETTLED. (spiciiL to "tm ntws.") WELLINGTON, March 18. The difficulty in regard to the man' ning of £he Moeraki has been settled, ilt was announced to-day a crew J will Bign on the articles at 10 a.m. on j Monday, and that the vessel will be : despatched for Sydney at 3 o'clock on j Monday afternoon. i A condition of the settlement of the ' trouble, a "Post" representative ascer- , tained, is that fresa articles lor t>ho : Moeraki aro to bo talten out. Tluvao men who had already agreed to sail with i the ship will, thereiore, have to sign off j the present, artjo.es. it was also learn- , ed timt the crew of the Maheno, which I has been held up at Sydney owing to a dispute between the engineers and the firemen, is to be paid off, and that the £*ew Zeuiandere among the crew ore Doing returned to New Zeaiand by the J>laauka and the Makura. Had the jjlaheno been racommissioned at Sj'dD ®y was feared ti.iat none of her complement of New Zealanders, who, it is : seated, formed the greater part of the jcrew, would have been able to rejoin It is stated that, because the New "eatand members of the Maheno'a crew are . being brought back to the Do®}lEl°n, anii that they understand that the Malheno is to be paid off, members of the Wellington Seamen'a Union have agreed to man the Moeraki.