FIREMAN REFUSE DUTY ON NGAKUTA.
DISPUTE RESULT OF DEMAND FOR TRIMMERS
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 3. The Ngakuta was to have sailed at seven o'clock tft-nigbt for Rarotonga. At sailing time the stokehold staff demanded that three additional trimmers be engaged. The Union Company refused the demand and the firemen would not take the steamer to sea. They walked ashore. When Captain Gray was about to take the Ngakuta into the stream the sailors refused to let go the mooring lines while the firemen were on shore. The departure of the vessel was postponed indefinitely.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 13
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