STEAMER HELD UP
CREW DEMAND SEAMAN’S
DISMISSAL By Telegram.—Press Association Auckland, January 20.
The Northern Company’s steamer Mataugi did not sail to-uight for iauranga owing to the seamen and firemen refusing to take her to sea until a sailor thev objected to had been dismissed. This the company refused to do, and the vessel’s departure lias been postponed until to-morrow morning. The sailor who it is desired should be dismissed has been in the service of the Northern Company for a long time, the last three years in the Dlatangi. He is reported to be one of tlie most efficient members of the crew, is understood that the men state that be was a volunteer seaman in the Northern Company’s service during the coastal seamen’s strike three years ago.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 99, 21 January 1926, Page 7
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