SHIPPING TROUBLE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 12

SHIPPING TROUBLE

SETTLEMENT PLAN

UNIONS CONSIDERING

Proposals' from the conference between representatives of the shipowners, the Alliance of Labour, tho. Seamen's Union, and the Cooks' and Stewards' Union, which lias been sitting in Wellington since Monday, wera considered at a meeting of the Seamen's Union in the Trades Hall this morning, the conference in the meantime being adjourned. It is understood' that the proposals are being considered at meetings of the Seamen's Unions at Auckland and Lyttelton today, and at Dunedin tomorrow. No announcements are probable until the results of all the meetings are known. SHIPS' MOVEMENTS. There arc at present nineteen' vessels held up in Wellington by the strike. Five of these—all Union Company ships —are in the stream, and the remainder, excepting the motor-vessel Kapuni, which is on the slip, are tied up at the wharves. There was more movement in the harbour today than there; has been for somo time, but the vessels were not those affected by the strike. Two liners have left port. The Huddart, Parker motor-ship Wanganella, with about 330 passengers for Sydney, left at112.45 p.m., and the Federal Company's Norfolk sailed at 2.35 p.m. for New Plymouth'to'continue loading for Home ports. The Shaw, Savill Company's cargo vessel Mahia, which was to have sailed on Tuesday for Gisborne and was held up in Wellington owing to internal trouble among the crew, was still in. the stream at the time of going to press, but she is expected to sail shortly. ■ v . ' ■ ■' Tho ferry steamers Maori and Arahura arrived to schedulo this morning, and the auxiliary scow Talisman arrived shortly after noon. The Shaw, Savill Company's Kia Ora arrived at 3 p.m. from Bluff. The Only other arrival expected today is the Picton ferry steamer Tamahine at 6.15 p.m. Only a few vessels are expected in tomorrow, the Ranagtira being duo in the morning from Lyttelton, and the coastal tanker Paua from Napier. The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Bangitata is scheduled to sail at noon tomorrow for London with a large number of passengers, and other vessels expected to leave port are tho auxiliary scow Kohi, for Nelson, and the ferry steamers Bangatira and Tamahine. The Echo, which was to have sailed today for Blenheim, will now sail at 4 p.m. tomorrow. " There are at; present 36 ships in the harbour. ' , . .