SHIP MINUS CREW
AUSTRALIAN TROUBLE
SEAMEN GIVE NOTICE
NO OTHERS AVAILABLE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
(Received Dec. 19, 11.55 'a.m.) BRISBANE, Dec. 19. When the steamer Canberra arrived 10 members of the crew who gave the requisite notice left the ship. Owing to a difficulty in filling the vacancies the departure of the vessel had to be postponed. Tfie trouble is a continuation of a dispute which delayed the vessel at Sydney. The secretary of the local branch of the Seamen’s Union sent a letter to the manager of the shipping company, stating that the men who left the vessel were dissatisfied at the non-payment of , claims made by them. If the claims were met unconditionally the men- would he quite prepared to return to the ship. The secretary added that other men will not fill the vacancies owing -to the above dispute. He considers the’ matter should he amicably settled at a conference.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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153SHIP MINUS CREW Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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