THE MANNING SCALE
TROUBLE OX MOTOR VESSEL. WIPER FOR ENGINE ROOM. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, December 8. The new motor vessel Taupata, which has been delayed at Auckland since Friday owing to trouble regarding the crew, is announced to sail for Norfolk Island at noon to-morrow. About SO tons of cargo, which was discharged from the vessel, was being reloaded to-day. The trouble which delayed the vessel concerned the manning scale. The Seamen’s Union requested that a member of the union should be employed in the engine room as a wiper, but the owner, Mr George Niccol, refused to engage an extra man for the purpose. The dispute bad not been settled to-day and, as far as could be ascertained, the deck hands had not signed on. the vessel. Neither Mr Niccol nor Mr T. F. Anderson, the secretary of the union, would make a statement.
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Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 5
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147THE MANNING SCALE Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 5
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