THE WAIRUNA'S MEN.
ALLOWANCES TO DEPENDENTS,
REQUESTS BY SEAFARING ORGANI
SATIONS.
WELLINGTON, June 10. A deputation representing organisations of seafaring men, waited: upon the Ministers of Defence and Marine, asking for some improvement in the treatment of dependents of members of the crew of the Wainana, interned in Germany. It was urged that the amounts being paid to the families of officers and men of the ship were much less than the equivalent of the peace-time incomes of those families. A request was made that tho Union Steam Ship Company should be compelled to pay full wages to the men's dependente. Sir James Allen said that he could not give a definite and immediate reply. It seemed to him that all tho Government could do -was to approach the company to J see what it would do in the matter. He . would bring tho representations made be 1 fore Cabinet. \
Mr Wilford concurred that the matter*' should be referred to Cabinet. It was his personal- opinion that some advance should ot> made on the rate of allowance to dependents resident in New Zealand.. :
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Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 53
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