ARREST OF STOKEHOLD HANDS
THE MARAMA DELAYED. MEN WALK ASHORE, (Peb United Press Absocxatios.)' AUCKLAND, January 7. The delay of the Marama at Sydney last Friday was not duo to the shipping trouble which is holding up a large number of steamers in Australia. The trouble was caused by the arrest on board the vessel of a stokehold hand on a charge of the theft, nearly a week previously, of the effects of the third engineer, who was going on holiday leave. The man who was arrested accused two other stokehold hands of being implicated in the theft, but this the two men denied, Owing to the police arresting the three men, 26 of the Marama’s' stokehold staff walked ashore as a protest. As it was after sailing time, the Marama left the wharf at 12.30 p.m., and anchored in tiro bay. Eventually the two men accused by "the first man who was arrested were released. This ended the dispute. The members of the crew who had left the steamer wore taken off to the vessel in a launch, and the Marama sailed at 2.45 p.m. for Auckland, where she arrived yesterday afternoon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19373, 8 January 1925, Page 9
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