DESERTION OF SEAMEN.
:.-■'_. —— -t&~ f : ; : ; ATTRACTED BY WORKERS "BIG MONEY." [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] jJunedin, Saturday. The " big money," offering as wages in New Zealand, has one striking result. It leads to wholesale desertions from visiting sailing ships. Nothing is commoner in this port than the practice by sailing ships of dropping down to the lower harbour and anchoring for some days. • This is done to keep vessels out of touch with land, while a crew can be recruited and retained. A probable case of depletion through desertions is now in evidence at Dunedin. Since the barquentine Titania arrived ; in New Zealand waters, desertions have been so numerous that her original crew of about sixteen is now reduced to four. ■ ■'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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