TWO'STEAMERS SAIL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 14

TWO'STEAMERS SAIL

MAUNGANUI AND TAMAHIWi

SYDNEY PASSENGER!?,

Manned by volunteer labour, the> San j Francisco mail steamer Maunganui and tho steamer Tamahino left; Wellij lgton today, tho Maunganui for Sydney / and J the Tamahine for Picton. Both these j ships had .been held up owing ; to tho dispute between the seamen ai id the shipowners. '* " ; The engagement of a crew ' for the Muanganui was completed yesterday j afternoon, and the vessel's i ieparturc was fixed for 10 o'clock this' morning to enable' passengers who ha d booked J by the Monowai at Auckland i io connect with the steamer. It was at fir st thought that it would bo necessary t» , bring tho Auckland passengers to We.l .lington by special train, but it was J .ater ascertained that they could hi s accommodated on the ordinary expra is, which arrived shortly after half -par it 7 o'clock. In all, 120 passengers cany j from Auckland, of whom about 36 a 1 i-rived by the Limited. The arrival «jf tho latter train was delayed half; an hour, but immediately it reached ■ Thorndon. the Sydney passengers iv* re transported by bus to the Clyde fj jay Wharf. All passengers wore aboar j by ab"6ut 10.30 o'clock, and an houj/ later the ship jnovod out from the; wharf into the stream, where arrangements for . her departure were eompi eted. She sailed at 12.25 p.m., with Zi )0 passengers and a heavy mail. ■ y 1 ' The Maunganui's -icrew was engaged ■without a hitch, and.) it is authoritatively stated that a Ipj ge proportion consisted of qualified i aen. This morning onf.y passengers were admitted to the Clyt Jo Quay- Wharf, and the police kept the) wharf entrance and the neighbouring at reets clear of all biit official traffic. Abi jut 200 strikers and sympathisers, .tog« ther with a sprinkling of sightseers, congregated outside the police cordon^ and- till the vessel moved away from the wharf there was nothing of an urti toward nature. When she got clear of 1 ier berthj however, the crowd gave ventf to their feelings with "boohs," and c« ,unted the ship "out." Arrangements for the departure of the'Tamahine ■? were carried out expedifcibusly, and j the ship sailed at 1.5 p.m. for Pictcia i. A police barrier was made at the berth, only passengers, with (t heir friends and officials being permittjj :d to pass. As in the case of the J# aunganui, disapproval of the ship's dc^ parture was expressed by rten who har d congregated on "the wharf. j PABSENf H3RS FOR BNOH.AND. The Mauj'iganui took, a number of passengers ; who are to connect with the liner -It laradine for England. It is not though t that the New Zealand pasgengers ivtf 11 be able to connect with the ship a.t Sydney, as she sails on Tuesday, •'j! but they will be taken to Melbourne; by the Westralia, and will connect vith the Baradine there. SOUPS' MOVEMENTS. Apart | from the trawler Futurist the only" ar I ivals in port today were the Lyttelt'in ferry steamer Maori" and the Ne'fcion ferry steamer Arahura. The small■'.;• lotor ship Opawa arrived in Wellin | ;tqn last evening from Blenheim, imd is to remain in port. Since yestertl ay afternoon the coastal steamers Wlf ainui, AVaimarine, Poolta, and Kainvi i, belonging to the Union Company, >; haye1 been moved out to anchorages /in the stream, there to await instructions.