MOERAKI FROM SYDNEY
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• "AUCKLAND, 13th December. The, Moeraki arrived from Sydney today with 276 passengers and the largest cargo carried by an intercolonial vessel for many months. The steamer was originally scheduled to sail on 9th November, but trouble arose over the replacing of three stokehold hands, who were paid off. The stokehold hands who refused:duty were arrested and sentenced to .ton days' imprisonment. 'One hundred 'and .seventy-two passengers and mails:; were disembarked, and the remainder of the crew stayed on board the .vessel") in the stream. Last "week volunteer stokehold hands •were engaged, but the deck hands refused ;' to sail with them. The deck hands, were arrested and sentenced to seven days', gaol, and their places were taken by volunteer seamen, - mostly unemployed Britishers, who were kept in readiness.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 143, 14 December 1922, Page 6
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133MOERAKI FROM SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 143, 14 December 1922, Page 6
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