DISPUTE ON WYE VALLEY
SETTLEMENT REACHED
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 31
Settlement has been reached in the dispute between the Pakistani crew and the owners of the freighter, Wye Valley, which is at present berthed at Ravensbourne. The seamen returned to work at 4 p.m. to-day and agreed that they would sail the vessel to Sydney after she had completed discharging at Dunedin. From Sydney they will be repatriated to Pakistan.
The seamen refused to take the ship to sea, as the articles binding them had expired. The owners of the vessel, the Valley Navigation Company, London, usually return their crews to Calcutta, in India. This practice was not acceptable to the Pakistani seamen, because of the present tension between their country and India. The Wye Valley will berth at Dunedin to unload 2000 tons of phosphate on Saturday, and will probably sail for Sydney late next week.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 3
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