DUAL CONTROL
CAPTAIN AND FIREMEN. MAHANA RETURNS TO PORT. RUMOURS AFLOAT. (ay TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. The Shaw Savill liner Mahana, which left the wharf yesterday, had to come back owing to the firemen refusing duty. ' It was claimed that three men were absent and that the vessel was undermanned. The captain anchored in the stream, and two of the missing men were found. Another account says that only one in all was absent. It is also stated that the chief engineer, who remonstrated with the men, was badly knocked about. In the end the police were sent for, and the tug Terawhiti was sent out early this morning to stand bv the steamer. TROUBLE WITH STEWARDS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Nov. 4, 11.50 a.m.) . ( SYDNEY, Nov. 4. There is a serious dispute threatened owing to the dismissal of 47 stewards from the Commonwealth liner Morton Bay. On the last voyage home two passengers became insane, and the captain ordered the chief steward to tell off a steward to keep watch over each of the patients. The stewards as a body refused to carry out the order, and it was decided to take no action till the vessel returned to Australia.
An enquiry was held, but no representative of the stewards was invited to attend, and the full complement of effective stewards was dismissed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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226DUAL CONTROL Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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