TUTANEKAI HOLD UP
SOLDIERS VOLUNTEER FOR STOKEHOLD. ADDITIONAL - DETAILS. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, February 9. The difficulty in securing the dispatch. of the Tutanekai seemed to havo been settled by the soldiers volunteering to man the stokehold, hut the seamen were faced with the difficulty of serving with non-union firemen. Permission from their union was being sought when the firemen deserted the ship, piling their kite on the wharf. They were arrested and taken to the police station on the wharf. There they were given one more chance. Upon receiving the assurance that the military force was proceeding to Fiji for the solo purpose of protecting the Europeans, they agreed to return to the ship, which sailed shortly after midnight.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 8
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