SAN FRANCISCO HOLD-UP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 5

SAN FRANCISCO HOLD-UP

WATERFRONT DISPUTE SHIPPING DELAYED SAILINGS UNCERTAIN , (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. As a result of the waterfront strike at San Francisco, the position of the shipping services to the South Pacific is at the moment in a state of uncertainty. The sailing time of the Matson liner Monterey for New Zealand and Australia. scheduled for Tuesday, is now indefinite. Only scant details of the trouble have been received and the extent of the dispute is not known. It is reported, however, that the Hawaiian liner Matsonia. which was to have cleared San Francisco for Honolulu last Friday, has been kept in port. From this information it is considered probable that the dispute has already been of some days’ duration.

The Monterey was scheduled to clear San Francisco on Tuesday and Los Angeles harbour yesterday, for Honolulu. Pago Pago, Suva and Auckland, arriving here on April 14 and sailing the same day for Sydney and Melbourne.

The other Mafson liner in the company’s South Pacific service, the Mariposa, will leave Sydney to-day for Auckland, arriving here on Monday and sailing the same day for San Frapcisco, where she is due on April 18. One Union Steam Ship Company trans-Pacific cargo ship on the New Zealand service is now on the Pacific Coast, of the United States. She is the motor ship Limerick, which was scheduled to leave San Francisco on Monday for Wellington, via Los Angeles,

Included in the Monterey’s passenger list are members of the Vienna boys’ choir, , which is booked to open the New Zealand season at Auckland on April 14, the date fixed for the liner’s arrival. It is probable that any delay may affect the arrangements for the, tour.