SLACKNESS OF TRADE
SEAMEN HARD HIT,
MANY VESSELS LAID UP. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON This Day. Owing to the general slackness in the shipping trade which has caused the laying-up of a number of coastal and intercolonial steamers there is a good deal of unemployment among seafarers.
The Minister of Afarine, the Hon. J. B. Donald, recently stated in the House of Representatives that the Union Steamship Company had eleven ships laid up, including eight colliers. The position is being relieved to some extent by ithe recommissioning of the Mamma for the Sydney service and the Katoa, after a spell of idleness at Wellington, went into commission at the beginning of this week and sailed for Newcastle. The Kartdgi, which has been laid up for some weeks, will resume running tomorrow and the Kaimiro will be recommissioned at Auckland tort a v.
The .Anchor Company has two or three ships laid up at Nelson owing to the slackness of trade.
It is understood that 19 junior officers have loft the service of ; the Union Steamship Company recently owing to the lack of employment afloat.
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Northern Advocate, 19 September 1930, Page 5
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