TROUBLE WITH THE OPAWA'S FIREMEN.
SHIP LEAVES AND RETURNS.
FOURTEEN MEN ARRESTED. •
(TOE.S ARBOeUTION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, Dec-mber 1. Fifteen firemen of tho steamer Opawt .... appeared in'the .'. Magistrate's -our*"; this morning, charged with absentmi themselves from tho ship without leave. Counsel said tho men had intimated that they wonld not work if they wore ; put on board. Tho magistrate (Mr Riddoll) said the _ men woro aware . what tho : penaltywould be if on boing placed on board thoy disobeyed commands on tho high seas. For tho present offence• theywould bo convicted and sentenced" t*>" fourteen days' imprisonment," with' tho direction that if the vessel sailed be-, foro tho expiry of the sentence, they ; should bo put on board. Tho firemen were returned- to the 'A. Opawa. which left port on her voyage to England. Sho cleared the Heads at" ono o'clock, but,, when three, or four,. miles out, sho w-_/o__o-vbd to tuna and. head back for port. •* '.'.-. - ; ; v, About throe o'clock tho Opaw» ahchorod in.the- stream, and a launch went out, and fqurteen man woro placed under arrest;. ,; " _; i
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14838, 2 December 1913, Page 7
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