SHIPPING SLUMP.
PLIGHT OF CAPTAINS AND OFFICERS. (Sydney Sun Special.) (Received January 3. 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 2. Two thousand sea captains and mates are unemployed at Liverpool. Many have, been ashore for two or three years. Their savings are exhausted, and they are existing in a state of semi-starvation. Thirty thousand other ratings are in a similar" plight. The Marine Service Association gives instances of captains trimming lamps. Sixty are hawking in Liverpool streets. Scores of officers are unemployed or casually earning the most meagre pittances. Officers are gladly going as able seamen. Never in the history "of British shipping have conditions been so bad.-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 3
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106SHIPPING SLUMP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 3
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