TIMBER FOR ISLANDS
Impasse over . ship’s crew (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 18. The delivery of nearly 300,000 ft of timber to the Cook Islands, urgently required for housing and redevelopment, will now be delayed indefinitely, until a ship can be found, said a spokesman for the Cook Islands Government, in Auckland today. The timber has been on a city wharf for three weeks. The spokesman said that the New Zealand Seamen's Union would not allow the Cook Islands Shipping Company’s vessel Slidre Timur to make the required twovoyage trip to transport the timber, unless a New Zealand crew was employed. The ship at present employs a Papuan crew.
It would be impracticable and uneconomical for the vessel’s owner to lay-off the present crew, and even more so to try to hire a New Zealand crew for two trips, he said.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32459, 20 November 1970, Page 7
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