INDIGNANT CAPTAIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10954, 20 December 1911, Page 6

INDIGNANT CAPTAIN.

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. -Peb Press Association.) Timaru, December 19. When the waterside workers struck last week, followed by railway casuals who receive cargo -in trucks, the permanent railway hands were sent to take the places of the latter in discharging the s.s. Annerley. The permanent hands protested against having to receive cargo from a Chinese crew, and asked 31 r Craigie to wire the Premier, .and he did so, they wiring the Minister of Railways and Railway Servants' Executive. The result of the. wire to the Premier was to order that the permanent railway men should not receive cargo from a Chinese crew, consequently the ship was idle for a few days.. Captain Mace has now instructed the local solicitors, Messrs Perry, • Perry, • and Kinnery to commence proceedings against the Railway Department for damage for the detention, of his vessel in consequence of-the. action of the.De-' partment. Captain Mace has also written direct to the Premier protesting against his action in interfering to prevent the Railway Department "from doing its duty as a common carrier in discharging my ship, arid also that no reply had been given to his telegram of the 12th, asking that arrangements be made.-tb_continue the railway ser-" vice. In shipping a Chinese crew and paying them European, rates he'had' broken no law, and he; had-yet to learn that New Zealand is governed hot by the law of the land but hy the ipse dixit of its Prime Minister." As nis owners had suffered loss and inconvenience he would "seek from the courts of the Dominion the justice which had been denied him by its Prime Minister and his Cabinet."' Tin- Annerley is oxpected to leave for- Melbourne with part cargo of Oregon timbers.