SHIPPING DISPUTE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18467, 4 August 1934, Page 14

SHIPPING DISPUTE

TWO VESSELS AFFECTED KINI TO 'BE LAID UP ( P«r AnaoeiaUon.) . t WELLINGTON, ihis day. / Though at a meeting held this wee* ip 'the fwur uuiin ports members of the 1 Seamen’s Union voted almost-unani-mously in favor of taking their ships / to sea, two ve'ssels were unable to leave Wellington yesterday. They are the Union Company’s Kini, and the Holm and Company’s, chartered steamer Patera. The Kini has been delayed at Wellington since last Tuesday, first on account of her cr-eW refusing to take her to sea, and on Thursday and yesterday because she ,was ( a man short. The Union Company has been unable to obtain a man to complete the complement, and the Kini is to be paid off and laid up to-day. The Parem, after having been hold up for several days at Lyttelton, arrived at Wellington last night, and yesterday one of her crew failed to rejoin her. Holm and Company were unable to obtain another man, and her departure has in the meantime been postponed until to-day.

FIVE SHIPS HELD UP POSITION AT . GREYMOUTH (Per Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, last night. Hive steamers have been held here by the seamen’s dispute since Tuesday, the Union Company ’s vessels Kaiwai, Kaimiro and Poolta, and the Anchor Line’s Rata and Titoki, the seamen refusing to put to sea, although possibly the condition of the bar might have prevented at least some flailing, the depth at high tide now being only 20*ft. The only change in the local position is that the crows of three Union Company vessels, numbering about 60, today received summonses to appear at Gpurt v to-morrow morning to answer eharges of disobeying the masters’ lawful commands to take the ships to sea. The Anchor Company’s crews expect similar - action. A member -of the Kaimai’s crow, John Johnson, 45, died to night at the .hospital, he having been carried ashore dil the dky-of the vessel’s arrival last Friday. The seamen state that they intend to seek an inquiry regarding the circumstances leading to Johnson’s s d<eath. They declare that he,arrived here suffering from acute pleurisy after having been passed as fit foi duty at Westport and later at Auckland,' when he had obtained pfcrmission in each instance for an examination by doctors. . IJeceasod had to lay up shortly after .the Kaimai’s departure from Auckland for Grcvmouth.