VICTORIA DELAYED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16009, 30 August 1915, Page 5

VICTORIA DELAYED.

CARGO TO BE DISCHARGED.

ISOLATION OF GTSBORNE.

[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington', Sunday. Tits Huddart- Parker liner Victoria is I still detained in port, and is now to lay I up. The manager, Mr. C. W. Jones, said I the company could rW yield to the exorbitant demands (f the nremen and ; seamen, and had instructed him to <:,.■>- I charge cargo and all hands. The vested j will land here about 1000 tons of cargo, i destined for other New Zealand ports. I Sft« has been moved to a berth for that I purpose. The men were yesterday offered j £5 each, together with full wages, from I Wellington to Sydney and bs< k to Wei- ] .mgton, full wages to be paid a: l t.';e \ time. Tins they refused, Some 52 men 1 fare involved. 'Instructions nave ue-?n I received fr in Melbourne." said Mr. j Jones, "to pay off ail hands. At the I same time notices have been Jested at the I shipping office notifying seamen of the ; vacancies on board trie slop, so it sne ; obtains a crew she Mill be despatched to , Napier, Gisborne. Auckland, and Sydney." lAt Uisborne, Mr. Jones explained, the ] people are greatly inconvenienced. Passengers who wish to go to Sydney are I detained, and cargo now on the ship is ! urgent, wanted. Some racehorses are I also detained. The otner steamer regularly I in the run, the Union Steam Ship Ccmj pany's Mararoa, is also detained in AuckI land, so that Gisbome will be quite isoI luted, except for the intermediate boat, : The Labour Department states that as the , men have, by '■ comb.nation or common I understanding" discontinued their emI ployment for the purpose of compeLir.g j the company to agree to increased rat'-s iof wag-e s for the trip, the matter has been I referred to the Crown Law Officers, wrtr? I a view to legal proceedings being taken. J for striking.