No Patent Cereal, No Sailing Of Ship
(Special.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The crew of a Union Company ship, the sailing of which was delayed on Thursday because of a dispute with <he company, were paid off yesterday morning and the ship cannot now leave to pick up a cargo of coal at Westport until a new crew is obtained.
Just before the ship was due to sail on Thursday evening delegates from the crew told the captain that they wanted patent cereals for breakfast. When the captain told them that they could not be supplied with patent cereals the delegates stated that the crew would not take the ship to sea. No official statements were made yesterday by the company or by the secretary of the Seamen’s Union (Mr. T. F. Anderson.) The breakfast menus on the ship concerned include stewed fruit, fish, Irish stew, sausages, potatoes, marmalade, tea, coffee and cocoa, and the men may have rolled oats, but patent cereals are not provided. Other meals include the choice of two joints, eggs, fish, vegetables and sweets. Food such as meat, sugar, butter and tea is not rationed. Firemen on the ship are paid about £22 a month, plus £6 cash bonus, and another bonus of £6 which is paid into the National Savings Account. Able-seamen get £2l, plus the two bonuses, and the wages arc paid in addition to their keep.
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Northern Advocate, 29 April 1944, Page 7
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