A HEATED BEARING

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 178, 16 April 1923, Page 6

A HEATED BEARING

DELAYS THE MARAROA Engine trouble caused a delay of some seven hours in the arrival of tho ferry steamer Mararoa from Lyttelton on Saturday. The vessel, .which has taken up the Maori’s running in , the Wellington-Lyttelton service, left Lyttelton at 8.15 p.m. on Friday, and accord ing to schedule, should have reached Wellington nt 9.30 the following morning. A wireless message, however, advised that the vessel had encountered engine trouble through a heated bearing, and that she would not arrive until the afternoon. At 2.30 she was sighted from the Heads, and arrived at her berthage at 4.20 p.m. The watersiders who had been engaged to coal the Mararoa were paid to stand-by front 1 p.m. until 5 n.m. They, however, had decided by a ballot of 24 votes to 1 not to work after 5 p.m. Mr. W. Bennett, manager of tho Co-operative Waterside Labour Employment Association, addressed them, pointing out the great inconvenience that would result to the passengers if the vessel were held up until to-day. The wa.t.rsiders, however, declined to work after 5 p.m., consequently the Union Company mustered 32 of their shore staff and handled about 100 tons of cargo and 80 tons of coal, so that the Mararoa was ab’e to sail at 10.10' o’clock on Saturday night for Lyttelton, taking a largo number of passengers.