THE WRECKED LINER.
WHARF LABOURERS' DEMANDS.
Per Press Association. Wellington, August 30. A number of wharf labourers en.gaged for salvage work on the Devon declined to operations this morning unless the Shipping Companies paid them' 5s an hour and overtime, their intention being that, it was special work and outside the limits of the harbour. The Company offered 2s an hour for day. work and 33 for overtime, and special consideration in the case of wet cargo, but this was not conisdered enough and the salvaging is now. being oarried on by the New Zealand Ship-i ping Company's stevedores The; weather is fine and the sea has ] moderateu ]
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10737, 30 August 1913, Page 8
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108THE WRECKED LINER. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10737, 30 August 1913, Page 8
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