INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18272, 13 December 1922, Page 10

INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE.

GRADUAL RESUMPTION. MANUKA TO BE MANNED. The intercolonial passenger services, which suffered more than the New Zealand coastal services by the seamen's strike, are gradually being resumed. Three steamers have already been recommissioned, and arrangements have been made for others to take up their usual trade. * The passenger steamers now running are the Moeraki, due at Auckland from Bydney this evening, the Ulimaroa, due »t Wellington to-day from Sydney, and the Faloona, which sailed from Melbourne yosterday for Wellington. Two others are to be recommissioned shortly. The Manuka is to sail from Auckland for Syd'/iey on December 22, and will leave Sydney on December 23 for Wellington. Tho Marama, which has been laid up ginco she was relieved in the San Francisco service by the Maunganni, is to be recommissionea in the intercolonial service, and the Paloona is to be withdrawn. The Moeraki will relieve the Paloona in the MelbournejWellingtonBluff service, and the Marama -will replace the Moeraki in tho Wellington-Sydney-Auckland service. The Ulimaroa is due at Auckland from Bydney on December 27, and the Marama. on January 9. Consequently the Moeraki will be the last passenger steamer to arrive at Auckland from Sydney' before Christmas. The Royal Mail steamer "Niagara, en route from Vancouver, sailed from Suva on Monday afternoon for Auckland, where she is due about 6 a.m. on Friday. The vessel, which is manned by members of the Australian Seamen's Union, is timed to resume her voyage to Sydney at 5 p.m. on Saturday. The Northern Company's steamer Barawa, after being laid up at Auckland for over two months, has been recommiasioned with a volunteer crew. She sailed for Whangarei last evening ,to load cement for New Plymouth. From Whangarei she will go to Onehunga to resume running in the Onehunga-New Plymouth passenger and cargo service. CHARGES AGAINST SEAMEN. 47 INFORMATIONS LAID. [BX TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHUECH. Tuesday. Forty-seven informations have been laid by the Labour Department against seamen alleging that theyyvere parties to an illegal strike. A penalty of £10 is claimed in each case. ._,.,, , _~ • The hearing is fixed for December 20.