HORORATA’S STOKERS LEAVE SHIP IN BODY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 23 February 1929, Page 9

HORORATA’S STOKERS LEAVE SHIP IN BODY

ALLEGED LEAK IN QUARTERS. “VERY QUARRELSOME AT HOUR OF SAILING.” Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. , The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Hororata has been held up at Auckland owing to troublo with the crew.

The vessel was about to sail for Bluff to-night, when 38 members of the stokehold staff walked ashore and refusod to take the vessel to sea.

At sailing time, some of the stokehold staff were quarrolsomo and were fighting among themselves. Then the stokohold staff complained in a body that the quarters wero leaking and refused to go to sea unless the fault was remedied., .They then went ashore but vtevelicptJbn the wharf by the water polled/ ■ The leak complained of was the result of very stormy weather when crossing the Atlantic on the voyage to New Zealand. Hororata reached Wellington on February 8 and it is understood no complaint was made there about a leak. When the men left the boat to-night., they requested that a surveyor from the Marine department should inspect the'hawse pipe whore the loak originated. This was done but the surveyor was unable to class the pipe as flcfective. , His decision was conveyed to tno stokers but they still refused to return aboard. Th© engineers then toolc the steamer into the stream and the stokehold hands drifted into tho city.