SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN.
CREW OF THE AWANUI. SITUATION OF DEPENDANTS. One of the disadvantages under which men who go to sea for a living work is that in the event of disaster their wages stop on the day they have to abandon the vessel. It may be months before they are in a position to obtain other employment, and in the meantime their dependants do not receive any help from the bread winner. The wreck v the Auckland schooner Awnnui is a case in point. The vessel was wrecked on Nieue Island on January 18. and the crew were not taken off the island until the beginning of April They were taken to Samoa by a rescuing steamer, and it will probably be the middle of June before the members of the shipwrecked crew can reach Auckland. This makes i* necessary for the men's dependants to live on their resreve funds for at least five months. While ot Samoa the men are being treated as shipwrecked mariners, and are being kept at the expense of the Now Zealand Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 8
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178SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 8
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