BALTRAFFIC SAILS
TEMPORARY HOLD-UP
CREW’S TEA DEMAND
(10 a.m.) BRISBANE, Oct. 22. .The New Zealand ship Baltraffic, which had been held up for six days because the crew demanded more tea, left on Saturday. The men were not given the extra ration. The crew's request for 14oz of tea a week against the Australian ration of 2oz was refused last Monday by the rationing director and the men went on strike. They claimed that they were entitled to the New Zealand scale of l4oz. The Seamen’s Union secretary said the rationing commission was responsible for the ship being held up. The New Zealand articles stipulated that the crew was not to be rationed in any commodity, and consequently the shipowners, with full knowledge of the rationing in Auckland, should have made arrangements for the ship to be completely victualled before she left New Zealand. The deouty commissioner of rationing said that if the men had been granted extra tea, every ship in Australia would have required the same.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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168BALTRAFFIC SAILS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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