SEAMEN'S QUARTERS.
THE MOERAKI AND MANUKA/' WELLINGTON, December 20. With xreference to' the maiming of the Moeraki and the Manuka at Sydney, Mr W. T. Young, general secretary of the Seamen's Union, has received a telegram from the secretary of the New South Wales branch to the effect that a meeting of the members on Monday night passed a resolution that they Would man the Moeraki and Manuka on conditions > acceptable to the branch-*-namely, that living quarters be given to the crew on deck. The Central Executive of the New Zealand organisation resolved that the action of the Sydney branch be endorsed, as being in conformity with the demand made by the New Zealand! Union for the past 20 years.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3380, 25 December 1918, Page 46
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120SEAMEN'S QUARTERS. Otago Witness, Issue 3380, 25 December 1918, Page 46
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