ANOTHER SHIPPING HOLD-UP
SEAMEN DEMAND NEW ZEALAND RATES CONCEDED UNDER PEOTEST. [Pee United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. Following the lead giRUn on Tuesday by seventeen members of the crew of the Willaston who refused to take the vessel to sea unless they were paid New: Zealand rate of wages and granted similar conditions, a step which resulted in their being charged at Lyttelton with impeding the progress of the vessel, the crew of the Pearlmoor declined to sail yesterday afternoon. As the men’s demands were not granted, the men came ashore, and the Pearlmoor, which will finish the discharge of her cargo of phosphates at Port Chalmers, anchored in the stream. The crew of the Pearlmoor, like that of the Willaston, is under three years’ foreign articles. The captain of the Pearlmoor has telegraphed to the agents of tho vessel at Wellington explaining the position, and is awaiting a reply as to what steps he should take. The demands, were later conceded under protest, and the vessel sailed this afternoon.
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Evening Star, Issue 19019, 14 August 1925, Page 11
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171ANOTHER SHIPPING HOLD-UP Evening Star, Issue 19019, 14 August 1925, Page 11
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