UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT AT WELLINGTON
OBSTINATE SEAMEN MAHENO UNABLE TO SAIL VESSEL MOVED INTO STREAM The Uniqn Company’s passenger steamer Maheno, which has been held op in Wellington since Friday, was moved- into the stream shortly .after JO o’clock last evening, bat it i* still hoped that the vessel will be able to sail to-day for Sydney All day yesterday the Union Company endeavour**! to get a crew signed on, and by five o'clock last night sli
hut two of the complement were on the articles. It was hoped that two men would be available after tea, and that the vessel would sail at 8 p.m. When the time came to sail it was found-that a number of men who had signed on during the day were absent, so the Union Company decided to send the Maheno into the stream to wait the return of the missing men. As the vessel was ready to cast off the rest of the men jumped ashore, consequently the offioers and engineers took the Maheno into the stream, where she now lies.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 7
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177UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT AT WELLINGTON New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 7
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