NEW SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13753, 4 February 1919, Page 5

NEW SHIPPING TROUBLE.

TARAWEEA HELD UP.

(By Telegraph—Press Aaeociation.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.

Tlie crew of the Union Company's cargo steamer Tarawera signed off the vessel at Lyttelton to-day, their arti-' cles having expired . The crew stated that they would not rejoin the vessel until the following clause was added to section 6 of the Shipping and Seamen Act ,1911: ''Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, it is hereby agreed that members of the New Zealand Seamen's Union signing these articles and being invalided on shore at any place in New Zealand with illness, other than venereal disease, contracted in the service of the ship at any place after leaving the vessel, he shall be paid by the owners the full rate of his monthly wages for three months or to the date of his recovery as certified by his medical attendant ,-vvliichsoever first occurs ; and if invalided ashore at a place' other than the place where he signed the articles he shall, in addition to the fore- ! going, be granted a free passage back to | the place"where he signed the articles within one week of his recovery, or the expiration of three months as the ease may be, and that the articles of agreement shall be read and construed accordingly .'' It is understood that the Union Company is not likely to agree to the insertion of this new clause, and in the meantime the Tarawera is held up pending further developments.