BEER FOR MUTINEERS
CAPETOWN INCIDENT TROUBLE ON SMALL SCHOONER [FHOSX OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT] CAPETOWN, Dec. CO Five shillings and a bottle of boer apiece for the mutineers ended a dispute at the Capetown docks on the Diolinda, a 200-ton schooner which arrived here two months ago after a nightmare 126-day passage from Liverpool.
The Diolinda lias boon thoroughly refitted during her stay here, and was about- to continue her voyage vo the Seychelles when three members of the crew walked off and refused to rejoin their vessel. They complained about general conditions aboard.
For four hours the whole persuasive power of the harbour staff, the captain of the Diolinda, the padre of the Missions to Seamen, combined with the threats of the railway police and the immigration authorities, were unable to move the men.
Late in the afternoon the padre persuaded the youngest of the three to rejoin the ship. A little later the other two accepted live shillings and a bottle of beer each from the skipper, and went aboard to the cheers 01 a crowd that had watched the argument for hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 14
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