VESSELS SAILING DELAYED

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1930, Page 11

VESSELS SAILING DELAYED

MEN WOULD NOT CLEAN DECK

LABOUR DISPUTE AT AUCKLAND.

COAL STEAMER KAMONA HELD UP

By Telegraph. —Press Association.

Auckland, Last Night.

The Union Company's cargo steamer Kamona wan delayed at Auckland for 16 hours to-day owing to trouble with the crew. The vessel unloaded coal cargo from Greymouth on Monday and was to have sailed on the return trip to Greymouth at midnight on Monday. The cargo had been discharged by means of grata and some of the coal had fallen out of the grabs on to the deck as well as. .the forecastle head and windlass. . j At sailing time on Monday night the members of the crew were requested, te clean away the coal from the deck and forecastle head, but they refused, stat; ino- the work should have been done by the waterside workers who discharged the vessel. * 1 The men also refused to take the vessel to sea until the work was done, so departure was postponed untilytlne morning, when there was a recurrence of the trouble, the crew again refusing to clear the loose coal off the decks. The work eventually had to.be done by chore labour. It was afternoon before the trouble was settled and the Kamona sailed shortly after four o’clock.