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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 155, 28 December 1918, Page 6

The many friends of Major Hannah (son of Mr Robert Hannah.' of Welling ton), will be pleased'to lenm that ho has recovered sufficiently from the serious wounds which he received on the western front many months ago, to be. able to leave for New Zealand. He' i left the Old Country on the 19th December, and should be back in Wellington about the beginning of February [ One of the firemen on board the ferry. steamer Maori, rather indignant about a current statement that firemen are refusing to sign on ship's articles for less than £1 per day, told a Lyttelton Times reporter that on board the Maori on Tuesday last there was only one regular | fireman who was being paid at tho rate of £1 a day, the rest of the men receiving that pay being wjiat are known as "runners,"- or men who have been firemen, bub who have been working ashore for some time past. He expressed the opinion that there was a real shortage of firemen, due to the fact that many men at the commencement of the war signed on vessels in order to evade military service, and now that the war was over had come ashore. In addition, a fair number of firemen had died as the result of the epidemic, whilst others had not sufficiently recovered to go to sea. Others . had savctl sufficient and wore spending the Christmas ashore. "Runners" in the ■ mwiUm? vntn n!»l<ios the nuii of tSi« coudidoua prevailing.