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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12021, 21 March 1903, Page 4

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Per Prfco Association. Yi".::.!.IXi;T!.N. March 20. tJ.:;'-' 1 "}r'rrJ. . :; ;; , i: '- : H l ""-' ,' •'• ' via..!-:, w\z:c 1 ;-.' _;;' _ ci : -. Mairitrate-s Cour: to-dav ,'-"' "' .'; ! .- -'•" - :: '-. t!..n-e'ves without 'eave - h.. ;ir< fr ,, m :! t-:..e ..i the ■-ailu-..; of th o ve.--,,l fi,: a Picto::, on the ITrh M::f.-h. It \r-.s .:-, r ,. 1 th.-.t- as the two i..e. •.;■<:-• not "at Vl-J::-for sailing, se.-xrch was m.ide. and thev we-.e found in a state of intoxication. As they

■were unfit for work the steamer was delayed for four hours, and the passengers and mails for Auckland and other northern poits arrived in Wellington too late to cater, the Mur.awatu. Until recently, ccun-.-el stated, it ha.! b:j:i ihe practice of masters, under a clays. - in their articles, to deduct from the waijes <f seamen or firemen two days' pay f'.r imp:"per absence, but the lliuistc: of Marine, in his good judgment, had thought tit to insist that the clause giving maste::: such power should be excised from chips' articles. Deductions could now be made only by a Magistrate, and this involved something well nigh impossible. Defendants, who admitted having be;:i drunk r:n the night in question.deposed that having done their eight hours' work they had received permission from the second engines: to go on shore. The Magistrate reserved judgment until Monday.