PACIFIC SERVICES
A DISLOCATION
STRIKE AT SAN FRANCISCO
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 29
As a result of ,a waterfront strike in San Francisco the position of the shipping services to the South Pacific is at the moment in a state of uncertainty. The sailing time of the Matson liner. Monterey for New. Zealand and Australia, scheduled for Tuesday, is now indefinite.
Only scant details of the trouble ha,ve been received, and the extent of the dispute is not known. It is reported, however, that the Hawaiian, liner Matsonia, which wag to have cleared San Francisco for Honolulu last Friday, has been kept in port. From this information it is considered probable that the dispute has already been of some days' duration.
The Monterey was scheduled to clear San Francisco on Tuesday and Los Angeles harbour today for Honolulu, Pago Pago, Suva, arid Auckland, arriving here on April 14 x and sailing the same day for Sydney and Melbourne.
The other Matson liner in the company's South Pacific service, the Mariposa, will leave Sydney -today for Auckland, arriving here on Monday, and sailing the same day for San Francisco, where she is due oh April 18. . ■■..-■'■
One Union Company trans-Pacific cargo ship on the New Zealand service is now on the Pacific coast of the United States. She is the motorship Limerick, which was scheduled to-leave San Francisco on Monday for Wellington, via Los Angeles.
Included^ in the Monterey's passenger list are the members of the Vienna Boys' Choir, which is booked to open its New . Zealand season in Auckland on April 14, the date fixed for the liner's arrival. It is probable that any delay may affect the arrangements for the tour.
Burns, Philp have received advice that the Monterey is to leave San Francisco today for Auckland, via Los Angeles. The date of her arrival at Auckland is not yet known, but it is expected that she will pick up a day on the trip. No mention "of the strike was contained in Burns, Philp's advice. ..•".'... .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11
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338PACIFIC SERVICES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11
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