ALL WELL.
DORSET’S VOLUNTEER CREW MESSAGE FROM SOUTH TARANAKI MEN Cheerfully signing themselves “Scab! Crew Dorset,” . the fourteen South Taranaki volunteer seamen and firemen aboard that vessel send wireless greetings from mid-ocean. The Dorset, after being held up by the strike for many weeks, left New Plymouth on October 19 and finally sailed from New Zealand shores on November 7, so she would be about tea days out when, on November 18, the following message, addressed to the editor of the Haw r era Star, was wirelessed *to the S.S. Sutton Hall, for posting on that vessel’s arrival aS Auckland: — Compliments of the season. All well. Plenty of tucker, but rough and unhomely. Please forward Christmas pudding. Condensed milk inferior to dinkum stuff. Only cheese seen was in captain’s mouse-trap. SCAB CREW DORSET.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 December 1925, Page 4
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133ALL WELL. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 December 1925, Page 4
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