GIVEN POSTS AT LAST
Officers Serve as Deck
Hands
Dominion Special Service.
Auckland, September 20.
After serving for some months as deck-hands on the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor-ship Port Gisborne, three of the crew were successful this week in obtaining positions as junior officers in the Union Steam Ship Company, and they have, gone to Wellington for instructions. For over three years all deck hands on the Port Gisborne have been certificated officers who have served their time as cadets on the Commonwealth and Dominion Line vessels, but have been unable to obtain officers’ positions. There are 18 seamen all holding certificates, and some .of them have been on the vessel for 18 months.
Owing to the large number of vessels idle in Great Britain hundreds Of masters and officers are unemployed, and many of them have been forced to Join the crews of ships. The Port Gisborne is the only vessel trading to New Zealand with a crew comprised of certificated men. She sailed from Auckland for London on Tuesday afternoon.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 305, 21 September 1934, Page 8
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