“QUITE UNRELIABLE"
LASCAR CREWS IN COLD CLIMATES. THE EGYPT AFFAIR. Australian and N.Z. Cablp Association. (Received May 28, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. Mr Havelock Wilson (secretary of the Seamen’s Union), interviewed, said that the only knowledge that the Lascars ran amok in connection with, tho cornea from the newspapers, but tho facts will be rer&alcd at the Board of Trade inquiry. The view of the Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union is that safety first should apply on sea as on laud. It 36 utterly impossible to got an effective boat crew to drill from men of mixed nationalities. It is utterly useless to expect the orders of officers to be conveyed to an alien crow in an emergency. A Lascar crew were all very well on the coast of India, but were very unreliable in cold climates. Such crews should be employed <m the seas where they were recruited.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11221, 29 May 1922, Page 5
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