A CREW'S WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 8

A CREW'S WAGES.

INTERCOLONIAL AND FOREIGN : RATES. ■ . (DI TELF.CUUrit—I'RESS ASSOCIATION.) V i-.,, Auckland, February 19. ' A difTorenco in-wages paid orevra trading : in intercolonial and foreign services led steamer - Waiter mat a, bound for Sydney and Cape Town, being detained at Auckland for several hours. The wages paid ■ tothe* 'crews on - foreignbound ivessels vary from £2 to .'£4 per month: less than the . intercolonial Tate. The crew-.'of' the!Waitcmata assumed'that as'the vessel was "destined for Capo*; Town they would bo paid at the foreign-going rate from the commencement . of, the voyaged They placed their views before; the ■iocal: office .of th : e company, which';thereupon'got into communication with* the head office-at Dunedin. A' reply-was received to the effect that the men's fears, were groundless, the New Zealand rates, would be paid to Australia, with a. reduction of £1 per month for the balance' of- the voyago. This latter is in. excess :of the foreign rates!.... The. firemen,_ . instead: of receiving £4 10s. par month, will be given £8, and A.B.'s ,will be entitled to £6 instead of £4 .a month, the foreign rate;. The men expressed themselves satisfied with these terms, and . went hack to their ship. ;