STEAMER DELAYED
CREW GIVE TROUBLE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland. November 27. The departure of the I’iako for Halifax and London was postponed from 3 p.m. yesterday until 7 this morning owing to the absence of four of the. crew. The remainder refused to sail yesterday, and left the vessel, and the seamen and stokers waited on the railway trucks oii the wharf to see that a substitute crew was not taken aboard. In the meantime the steamer was moved to an anchorage in the stream, and wlifeii four other men wpre later signed on to replace the missing men, the crew decided to rejoin the I’iako, and went aboard ; hut the vessel did not lift anchor until early this morning.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 6
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