MOERAKI DELAYED.
A FIREMAN MISSING. fatit i«iocuno» mujuK.) DUNBDIN, February 3. When the intercolonial steamer Moeraki waa leaving the harbour about 3 a.m. to-day it was found that one of the shokehold hands wag missing. The rent of the stokehold crew demanded that the vacancy be filled, and the vessel was compelled to anchor outside the heads. Communication was established with the shore after daybreak, but several hours elapsed before another man was secured, and the vacancy eventually filled. The 3loeraki resumed her voyage shortly before 11 a.m. to Lyttelton, Wellington, and Melbourne.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 10
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