THE JOCKEYS’ STRIKE
SEAMEN’S PART. REFUSAL TO SAIL WITHER G. CLIFFORD. • By Telegraph.—Press Association ) CHRISTCHURCH this day. Sir George Clifford, president of the New Zealand Racing Conference, had "booked a passage ,for Wellington by the Mokoia last night, but the firemen declined to go to sea with him and Mr. Rutherford on board. As Sir Geoige left the steamer the passengers cheered him, the firemen making a cownter-de-mlonr.tuation. Lhe treason for declining to sail with Sir G. Clifford and Mr Rntherford is that the two «re racehorse owners, but there appears to be some mistake about Mr Rutherford, for it is understood that no member of the racing family of that name was on the Mok'oia'.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5962, 13 July 1920, Page 3
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