VESSEL TO SAIL
Trouble Over Manning DISPUTE NOT SETTLED By Telegraph.— Presv Association. Auckland, December 8. The new motor-vessel Taupata, which has been delayed in Auckland since Friday owing to trouble regarding the crew, is .announced to sail for Norfolk Island at noon to-morrow. About 80 tons of cargo which was discharged from the vessel was being reloaded to-day. . The trouble which delayed the vessel concerned the manning scale. The Seamen’s Union requested that a member of the union should be employed in the engine-room as a wiper, but the owner, Mr. George Niccol, refused to engage an extra man for the purpose. The dispute not been settled today, and as far as could be ascertained deck hands had not. signed on the vessel. Neither Mr.' Niecol nor Mr. T. F. Anderson, secretary of the union, would make a statement. ■''
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 8
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