UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS
INQUIRY DEMANDED. SYDNEY, July 10. A conference of representatives of maritime unions, representing over 33,000 members, carried a resolution demanding a Royal Commission to enquire into the foundering of the Sumatra and other vessels, with power to cover every activity in relation to shipping, also that it be an instruction to all members to immediately notify the secretary of the union of anything of a suspicious nature tending to make a vessel unsea worthy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18821, 11 July 1923, Page 9
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76UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18821, 11 July 1923, Page 9
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