SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 July 1915, Page 7

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

A MISSING SCHOONER. AUCKLAND, This Day.—The Pacific Cable Board is sending a steamer to search for their schooner Strathcona. She will also carry officials and stores between Fanning Island and Honolulu. The missing schooner left Auckland on her maiden trip and has not since been heard of. A crew of eight are aboard. The searching vessel will cruise 2000 miles, vising the Kermadecs and other islands. MASTERS AND OFFICERS. INCREASED PAY. GRANTED BY THE ARBITRATION COURT. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Arbitration Court has filed its award in the dispute between the Wellington Merchant Service Guild and sixteen owners of vessels of gross registered tonnage of not less than 100 tons and not more than 600 tons. The Court stated that it had < great difficulty in making an award owing to tho services affected being conducted under such variable ' conditions. The Guild sought to have overtime paid to officers. The Court, however, was unable to adopt this course ,as by doing so it would have placed the officers in a- position in which tlicir interests would have conflicted with their duty, which was to minimise overtime. Moreover, the Court was satisfied that the extra cost entailed by such provision would probably have resulted in several ships affected being put out of commission or, at any rate, being worked at heavy loss. The Court realised the anomalous conditions existing under tvhich seamen’s earnings are sometimes greater than those of the officers, and to meet the case had increased the pay for masters and officers. Masters are to receive £25 a month where only one mate is carried, and £23 10s where two mates are carried. Chief officers are to receive £l9 and second officers £ls, fourteen days’ annual holiday on full Pt, rhe award comes into forces on August 2nd.