WAHINE'S CREW DEMANDS HIGHER WAGES.
Received Tuesday, 8.20 p.m. SYDNEY, March 18. A dispute involving the crew of the ! "Wahine which arrived at Sydney today from Wellington, has lield 011 board all heavy baggage of passengers, 250 bags of mail and a consignment of livestock. The crew demands Australian watersiders' rates of pav before tliey will unload. The demands have been cabled to head oflice of the Union Company at Wellington but the baggage cannot be landed today as the crew has conipleted eight hours of duty and some men have gone ashore. Many of the ship 's 340 passengers waited for more than six hours in the hope that the baggage would be landed. Some passengers were able to oarry their own higgage ashore.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1947, Page 5
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