COLLIER DELAYED AT WESTPORT
CREW’S DEMAND FOR REPLACEMENT
(P.A.) ’ WESTPORT, June 8. The Union Steam Ship Company’s collier, Kartigi, which completed coal loading at Westport on Saturday afternoon, and was to have sailed at 9 a.m. on Sunday for Auckland, is being held by the demand of the crew for a replacement for an injured crew attendant.
Although an agreement between the ship owners and the Seamen’s Union provides that the crew orderlies shall not be -replaced at ports other than Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, or Dunedin, it is understood that requests from the union’*, executive to take the Kartigi to sea have so far not met with any response from the crew. Two men who offered their services as mess orderlies were not acceptable to the crew. Because of the shortage of coal at Auckland, the delay in the sailing of the Kartigi is most unfortunate. The vessel was recently delayed a long time at Auckland because of crew disputes.
The man concerned is Sydney Cheek, 19 years, who was admitted to
the Buller Hospital on Saturday noon with severe concussion su “ e sH in a fall from the wharf on to W ship’s deck. His condition this nooipi was reported as a
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25516, 9 June 1948, Page 6
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