VESSEL HELD UP
FIREMAN DISSATISFIED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, 9th February. The steamer Kahika has been held up since Tuesday night owing to a dispute with the crew over a question of rating. ' The men refused to agree to an able seaman being engaged to fill an ordinary seaman's vacancy. A man was engagea'to-day as an ordinary seaman, ana the crew were satisfied, with the exception, of one fireman, who refused to sail with the new hand. The fireman signed' off the articles this ovening, and an endeavour is now being made to fill the vacancy," but thero is little likelihood of the Kahika sailing to-night for Napier ana Gisborne.
DUNEDIN, This Day. The Kahika sailed at 10.25 this morning, for Auckland, via ports.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 13
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