GOVERNOR RALLIES SEAMEN
SHORE HOSPITALITY AND SHIP HOLD-UPS tP»n Umted Press Association ] AUCKLAND, April 11. The suggestion that merchant seamen might reciprocate hospitality ashore by considerate treatment of passengers and cargo was made bv the Governor-General in a speech at th» Seamen’s Institute to-night. Speaking to the seamen present, Sir Charles Fergusson said-:, “If people give you cburtesy and hospitality, they are entitled to expect, the same treatment from you when they go to sea, and the public have been in many respects very sorely tried in the past. It is of no use to go to a city merchant or farmer with an appeal for money for an institution such as this if the merchant is losing a week of precious time, and money as well, because his goods are being hold up; or if the farmer is having his produce detained. I am not saying anything about the rights of disputes, but I do suggest that the time to have them out is not when the people from whom you expect money are about to make a voyage. lam saying this in the hope that you will convey it to others who may be ill-advised. That sort of thing is simply killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, or rather, I had perhaps better say, it is plucking feathers from the potential flying angel.” (Laughter.)
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Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 13
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228GOVERNOR RALLIES SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 13
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