STEAMER HELD UP
DISPUTE WITH THE MASTER ■ ‘UNJUST!FLED STAG HT” (Per Press Association) Auckland, October 4. Oiling to u dispute with the crew the Westport Coal Company steamer Cauopu s iheld up there. Tfc is stated that the hold-up is the result of a private dispute with the master of the vessel. Ace wiling tfi tbs- men two of (heir number were searched by .the captain on the ground that stores had been previously missed. Th e remainder considered >his action an. unjustified 1 slight, and protested. Tile vessel wn, s to have sailed ftv Westport at 10 p.m. yesterday, hut cargo work delayed her for another hour. The crew then refused to take the vessel do sea until some amends were made to the two men. The crew will be paid off to-mor-row, and if a tin crew is not, forthcoming the vessel will he laid up.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 5
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