STRAIGHT TALK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 5

STRAIGHT TALK

GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND SEAMEN

HOLDING UP OF SHIPS

PUBLIC SORELY TRTED

(By Telegraph.—Special to “The Mail")

AUCKLAND. This Day

The suggestion that merchant sea men might, reciprocate the hospitality received ashore l»v considerate treatment of passengers anil cargo was made hy His Excellency the t tovei'iior-Cenoral, iSir Charles J-’ei-gusson, in a speech at. the Seamen’s Institute last, evening. Speaking to the seamen present, Sir Charles said : “If people give yon eourtesy and hospitality, they are entitled to expect the same treatment from you when thev go t«■ sea, and I lie public have hern in many respects very sorely tried in the past. It. is of no use to go to a merchant, or a farmer with an appeal for money for tin institution such as t his. if the merchant is losing a week of precious time ami money as well because his goods are being held up, or if the farmer is having his produce detained. I tint not saving anything about the rights of disputes, hut 1 do .suggest that the time to have them out is not when people from whom you expert money are about to make a voyage. 1 am saying this in the hope that you will convey it to others who may he illadvised. That "sort of thing is simply killing the goose that, lays the golden eggs, or rather, 1 had perhaps better say, if is plucking feathers trom tlm potential ‘Flying Angel.’ ” In welcoming the Hey. Mr 11. K. Vickery, chaplain, and his wife, Sir Charles designated the building which at present houses the “Hying Angel ..Mission for Seamen” for the Port of Auckland, as a disgrace to the city.