CREW REFUSES TO TAKE SHIP TO SEA
’(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 21. The Nemiskam Park is still lying in the stream in Lyttelton Harbour though she was due to sail for Melbourne on Saturday morning. Some of the crew declined to go aboard and take the ship to sea. The Nemiskam Park was taken out into the stream by a fug at noon yesterday. The Nemiskam Park, which has a phosphates cargo for Melbourne from Makatea, visited Lyttelton to bunker.
According to some of the crew tnere was trouble ashore at Papeete and some of them were put on board by armed gendarmes and soldiers. It is said that a high French official was pelted with missiles when he went down to the ship to protest at the behaviour of some of the crew.
A reporter was told by a spokesman of the crew yesterday that the men on shore would not rejoin the ship because after being logged and having deductions made from their pay at Papeete they had had further deductions made while they were at Lyttelton.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 6
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