SIR JOSEPH REBUKED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14868, 20 December 1911, Page 9

SIR JOSEPH REBUKED.

BY A MILITANT CAPTAIN. HE WILL SEEK JUSTICE AT LAW. tST nXEGItAI'H.— ASSOCIATION. 1 ,: Timaku, Tuesday. When the waterside workers struck last week, followed by the railway casuals, who receive cargo in trucks, permanent railway hands were sent to take the places of the latter in discharging the s.s. Annerley. The permanents protested against having to 'receive cargo from a Chinese crew, and asked Mr. Craigie, M.P., to wire to the Premier, and he dicj so, the permanent men also wiring the Minister for Railways and the railway servants' executive. The result of the wire to the. Premier was an order that the permanent railway men should not receive cargo from a Chinese crew; consequently the ship has been idle for a few days. Captain Mace has now instructed local solicitors to commence proceedings against the Railway Department for damages for detention of his vessel, in consequence of the action of. the Department. Captain Mace, has also written direct to the Premier protesting against his action In interfering to prevent the Railway Department from doing its duty as a common carrier in discharging the ship, and also complaining that no reply had been given- to his telegram of the 12th, asking that arrangements be made to continue the railway service. Captain Mace added that in shipping a Chinese crew and paying them European rates he had broken no law, and he had yet to "learn " that New Zealand is governed not by the law of the land, but by the ipse dixit of its Prime Minister." As his owners had suffered loss and inconvenience he would "seek from Courts of the Dominion the-justice, which had .been denied him by its Prime Minister and his Cabinet.'' The Annerley is expected to leave for Melbourne with part of her cargo of Oregon timber.