SHIP DELAYED
FIREMEN MISSING
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 26. Forced to sign on four firemen to replace a similar number who had| failed to rejoin the ship, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Waimana was delayed for over three hours before her departure for London this morning. Instead of leaving at 7 o'clock, she did not clear the stream until 10.30 a.m. The absence of five firemen was not discovered until the "steamer was ready to leave her berth, and it was decided to anchor in the stream to await the defaulters' return. One man who had previously! left the ship at 3.30-a.m. on a shore excursion arrived some time later, but there was no sign of the remaining four. Finally other firemen were signed on in their place for the voyage to England via Panama and Kingston.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 16
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