IDLE CARGO STEAMERS.
ADDITION TO THE LIST.
WAIKAWA TO BE LAID UP. Owing to the falling away of trade between Canada and New Zealand the Union Company's transpacific steamer Waikawa, 5677 tons, is coming to Auckland from Newcastle about Friday to be laid up until early in January. When the Waikawa arrives there will be eight Union Company's steamers laid up at this port owing to the slackness of trade. The majority of the vessels have been idle for many months. With the inclusion of the Waikawa the total tonnage of idle shipping in port will be 29,005 gross.
The other vessels laid up at Auckland are the Waitomo, 4214 tons; Waitemata, 5729 tons; Ivairanga, 2830 tons; Kaitoke. 3167 tons; Ivaimanawa, 2416 tons; Kurow, 2625 tons; Kartigi, 2347. tons. The steamers mentioned are only a few of the vessels idle in New Zealand, there being at least another 16 steamers, both intercolonial and coastal traders, laid up at Southern ports. This means that over 1000 seamen and firemen are out of employment, in addition to a large number of officers, engineers and cooks and stewards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20959, 24 August 1931, Page 10
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185IDLE CARGO STEAMERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20959, 24 August 1931, Page 10
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