SHIPPING POSITION

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 5

SHIPPING POSITION

NORMAL AGAIN

THE POSITION AT WELLINGTON..

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... .».y, . . WELLINGTON,May 14. The shipping positio’h . is back to normal again (.There are .only four vessels affected by the hold-up which have / hot yeF sfijgned on Union crews, they, -being, the Monowai, Maunganui, Kaftoa and .EchosThe Kaitoa • on ia; crew tomorrow, when she ‘will?; ;resume her running ,ln th e . NclsQntferry service. The auxiliary scow Echo left here fast Friday for Blenheim with a volunteer crew,' and arrived back ' to-day. As was the case with' the Tamaihine, the Echo’s Union crew: refused to man the vessel i until t-K&jr quarters had been fumigated and cleaned out. This was done .to-day. ■ The''Maunganui'is. due her© to-mor-row. She is manned by a 1 volunteer crew, who will be signed off. to-morroW. As with the Taniahine and the- Echo, t’Ke Union crew will; no. doubt, i'OdicSjto that their quarters-must'he fumigated before they can . occupy .them. ; . With the exception of , the Wainui, all other ships left port on Saturday. Two of the Wainuj’s’ cvew had. gone south during the 'hold,up, • mid / only arrived back at (Wellington bvlbo- ,®S n * gatira -to-day. • They, re-joined immediately. She Heft .at. 8-3.0' a.m, "for Bluff and Melbourne. -\ v ' , ‘ The, Waikawa' \vas similarly delayed ia.t Lyttelton; 'a- number: of the crew returning to ' Auckland, (where they had signed on'.' ■ - .