A SERIOUS POSITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 November 1922, Page 5

A SERIOUS POSITION.

(BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION J „_ AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. The crews of six more of ;the Nbrthem Company's vessels were paid off today on the expiration of their twentytour hours' notice, and another crew will be paid off to-morrow, • rendering idle all but one of the company's boats trading to Auckland, affecting; over a hundred seamen and firemen/ The crews of the Richardson steamers Mako and Awaho.u" have notified that they are not working under the new award. A further attempt was made to dispatch *the Arahura for Gisborne and Napier, a man having been engaged to fill the vacancy. Two of the crew, however, told him to go on shore, which he promptly did. The Union Company has given the crew twentyfour hours' notice. The Union Company's Waipbri, which is being recommissioned after overhaul, j was to have sailed for Brisbane to-day,! but the men, after hearing that a j clause dealing with the new award was ; included in the articles, walked out of the office. The Kaiapoi's articles have expired, and Bhe wants a similar number of men. She is loading timber. When a call was made for men this morning there was no labour offering. The same applies to the Kurow. About fifty pasesngers had booked by the Arahura for Gisborne and Napier, and most of them have proceeded overland. *