SHIPPING DISPUTE
SEAMEN OBJECT TO VOLUNTEER WORK h;i; (United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Jan. 20: The Northern Company's steamer Matangi did not sail to-night for Tauranga owing to the seamen and iirenien refusing to take her to sea niiiil a sailor they objected had been dismissed. This the company refused to do. and (he vessel's departure was postponed, until to-morrow morning. The sailor who i( is desired should l.e dismissed has been in the service of the Northern Company for a long time, the last three years in .the Matangi. He is reported to be one of the most ellicienl, members of the crew. It is understood that the men state that he was a volunteer seaman in the Nortrliern Company's service during the coastal seamen's strike'three years ago.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 January 1926, Page 4
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128SHIPPING DISPUTE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 January 1926, Page 4
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