TWO SHIPS STILL HELD UP

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1934, Page 6

TWO SHIPS STILL HELD UP

KINI AND PARERA AT WELLINGTON MEMBERS OF CREWS MISSING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Though at a meeting held this week in the four main ports members of the Seamen’s Union voted almost _ unanimously in favour of taking their ships to sea, two vessels werej unable to leave Wellington to-day. They were the Union Steam Ship Company’s Kini and Holm and Co.’s chartered steamer Parera. The Kini has been delayed at Wellington since last Tuesday, first on account of her crew refusing to take her to sea, and on Thursday and to-day because she was a man short. The Union Company has been unable to obtain a man to complete the vessel’s complement, and the Kini is to be paid off and laid up to-morrow.

The Parera, after having been held up for several days at Lyttelton, arrived at Wellington last night, and to-day one of her crew failed to rejoin her. Holm and Co. was unable to obtain another man and her departure has in the meantime been postponed until to-morrow.