DISAPPOINTED SEAMAN.
NO EMPLOYMENT OFFERING. REPORTED PROSPECTS UNREALISED. (Special to Daily Times.) WANGANUI, .April 28. A member of the stokehold crew of the Kahanui is finding that his trip to Now Zealand was not such a profitable undertaking as he was led to believe at Home, and ho is practically stranded. He became engaged for the voyage over seven months ago through the High Commissioner’s Office, and, like other members of the crew, was told of the golden opportunities in New Zealand for men willing to work. So far ho has b° en unable to obtain employment of any description. Apart from his seafaring experience, which includes service in the navy during the war, ho has a knowledge of farming and blacksmithing, and states that he is willing to turn his hand to any class of work that will return him a surplus over his keep. He has a wife in the Old Country whom, he Oates, ho is most anxious to bring to New Zealand. More pathetic still, on the arrival of the tug at Wanganui, after a protracted voyage, when the mail was brought aboard, instead of receiving a letter that all was well at homo In? received the sad intelligence that his 13-months-old only child had passed away. He has no desire to return to the Old Country, but is anxious to bring his wife out to ;’oin him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20086, 30 April 1927, Page 6
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232DISAPPOINTED SEAMAN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20086, 30 April 1927, Page 6
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