MISSING COOKS AND STOKERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 52, 25 November 1929, Page 12

MISSING COOKS AND STOKERS

DELAY STEAMER TWENTY HOURS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, November 24. Complications on the Union Steam Ship Company’s Kaikorai caused a delay of twenty hours in the time of its departure for Port Kembla. The vessel had unloaded general cargo from southern ports and was due to sail at 5 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. At sailing time six stokers were missing. Four came on board after six o’clock, while the other two could not be found. While two substitute stokers 1 were being engaged' two cooks walked ashore, causing y further delay. Orders were given to take the Kaikorai out into the stream until the cooks could be found. However, the crew refused to take the vessel from the wharf until the two cooks returned.' The trouble was further complicated when the two substitute stokers went ashore. It was then too late to engage others. On Sunday the task of finding unemployed stokers was difficult, and the vessel did not sail unti 1 after one o’clock in the afternoon.

PRIME MINISTER AND KING’S PHYSICIAN A REMINISCENCE OF FAROFF DAYS London, November 22. “During my first visit to Buckingham Palace,” declared Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at the Royal Society of Medicine’s banquet, “while I was dazzled by the brilliant uniforms, I noticed a man whose dignity indicated that he was born there. He asked me if I remembered him, and when I replied in the negative, he reminded me that years ago a medical student and myself went out together into Gower Street after a most respectable dinner. Looking at me anxiously, he asked, ‘How much have you got?’ I glanced hurriedly at my few odd coppers and replied, ‘How much have you got?’ Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking to Holloway Station. Who could have forecasted that we should not meet again until we met as the King’s guests He was Lord Dawson of Penn, the King’s physician.