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Otago Witness, Issue 3774, 13 July 1926, Page 32

When the joint committee of shipowners and seamen’s representatives met to consider wages adjustment, the seamen’s advocate, Mr Young, asked for the exclusion of the press, unless the whole proceedings were reported verbatim, on the grounds that the men’s side was never .aa fully reported aa the employers’. Mr E. Page (chairman) granted the request, not for the reason urged, but because it was a round-the-table gathering, and he thought members would speak more freely it they were not reported.