STEAMER HELD UP.
DISPUTE ABOUT MESS ROOM. (Pee United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, February 28. The coastal boat Himatangi has been laid up for a week, and 10 men are out of employment because of a dispute about the mesa room. It was stated that a new mesa room was built forward for the men, but they preferred to keep their mess room aft. The new mess room provided temporary sleepin" accommodation for the third engineer, but the Marine Engineers’ Institute raised an objection, and insisted that he should be quartered aft as is invariably done aboard ship. An agreement was reached that the men should take up_ the room _ forward, the suggestion being, it is said, favourably received bv t“ e . men concerned, but the Seamen’s Union then stepped in and vetoed the proposal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20964, 1 March 1930, Page 20
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