LICENSE SYSTEM
STRIKERS’ POSITIONS' FILLING
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, January 16.
More than a thousand licenses, including.. 350 by post, have been issued ■to seamen, in Sydney. There now are not more than a. thousand ■ vacancies vto be -filled on thirty-five vessels at present idle-'in Australia. In the ..whole [of , Australia more than sixteen huniidred volunteers have-been placed in niuety-two ships. In view', : of* a number of ■ attacks recently: made, the Newcastle .police are ■taking special precautions on the waterfront, and a constant patrol has been ordered... It is .alleged that h steward from the Abel Tasman was attacked .by a number of men, who flung him to the ground, kicked him, and stole his discharges and bank book, in which there was a balance of fifteen pounds. The steward was not a volunteer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1936, Page 6
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