THE RANGATIRA
RETURN TO SERVICE DELAYED EFFECT OF JOINERS’ DISPUTE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, JulY 26. Inquiries as to the date of the resumption of the Rangatira in the Wellington-Lyttelton service to-day elicited the information that this is uncertain and it may be two or three weeks yet. The Union Companystates that the vessel is undergoing annual survey and overhaul and extensive alterations to the crew’s quarters and the work is behind schedule. When the vessel was withdrawn on June 15, it was planned to work overtime on Monday and Wednesday evenings and also all day on Saturdays and Sundays. The object was to get the Rangatira back into service as quickly as possible to avoid public inconvenience.
Owing to a dispute, in which they are seeking an increase in the award rate of wages, however, the joiners have declined all overtime work since June 24, except for a total of eight hours worked by a few men. The delay to the joinery work in the crews quarters is the key to the situation. The annual overhaul of the steamer express vessels is undertaken in the winter months in order to have the vessels in service in the busy summer months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26215, 27 July 1946, Page 6
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199THE RANGATIRA Otago Daily Times, Issue 26215, 27 July 1946, Page 6
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