Valediction
Chatham Islands service
Sir,—The Holmdale was recently strike-bound because of the repair of the crew’s video, then delayed by machinery failure. We Chatham Islanders do have friends on board. They take appliances and tools out for repair, do odd shopping and bring valuable or fragile items down in their personal care. We are grateful, and this does much to compensate for the shipping company’s abysmal service. Our friends can do little about the vessel’s age, and can only look embarrassed when shipmates go on strike, holding up supplies of petrol and food. We do not grow our own produce because most of us are too busy fishing, diving and farming to earn enough to pay the crippling freight rates. I also have to nurse a decrepit Land-Rover because my new one, bought in April, is still in Lyttelton, but I am still better off than my neighbour who has been waiting for his truck since January. — Yours, etc., R. L. CLOUGH. Te One, Chatham Islands. July 14, 1984.
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Press, 20 July 1984, Page 12
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