Ship called ' a pirate’
CA’.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 11. The Islands trader Florida will leave Auckland empty and will not return, Seamen’s Union secretary (Mr D. Clark) said yesterday. It was “a pirate,” he said. The Florida has been lying at Onehunga Wharf for eight days since the union put a black ban on her. The union says the Suvaregistered vessel was sailing under a flag of convenience and it was understood the union felt the’ Florida was stealing trade which traditionally used New Zealand vessels. The Florida, chartered by the Fiji Steamship Company, has a crew of Fijians and Rarotongans. The Fijian company took up the charter after cancellation by the Reef Shipping Company.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 23
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