MASTERS AND OFFICERS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 566, 2 December 1915, Page 11

MASTERS AND OFFICERS.

AGREEMENT FORMALLY REPORTED TO GUILD.

A meeting of the committee of the Merchant Service Guild was held in Wellington recently to receive the report of Captain F. A. Macincloe, the secretary, who, with Captain Lobb, represented the guild at the conference with representatives of the Union Steam Ship Company recently at Dunedin. " The agreement provides for a general increase of 15 per cent, in the salaries of masters and officers of the Union Company's vessels trading in and to New Zealand. The Guild Committee indicated that it was pleased to know that the whole business had been settled amicably, and in such a manner as should give satisfaction to the majority of the members of the guild; it was also pleasing to know that it had been arranged that uniform trimmings would be supplied in future. This latter practice, although almost universal in England, had not obtained hitherto in New Zealand. An important concession secured in the agreement is the granting of 21 days annnual holiday to all masters, captains of cargo steamers having previously only enjoyed the luxury of 17 days' annual leave. It was also agreed that all masters should be entitled to two clear periods of 24 hours each away from their vessels in every month.