THE MERCHANT SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 7

THE MERCHANT SERVICE.

BETTER CONDITIONS WANTED., The success achieved by ships' masters and ofliceps in, the Arbitration Court of the Commonwealth has naturally attracted the, attention of masters and in fit 03 in'SJew Zealand, and the Merchant Service Guild has decided to take steps to endeayoui!-to bring the New Zealand conditiowiyiip...to the level of those now ruling in] ,the., Commonwealth. The guild has consequently resolved to cite the New Zealand (shipowners'' Federation before the Conciliation Council this week. A special meeting of tho Merchant Service Guild is to be held.lo-,day, to finally formulate, the demands and confirm the notion a 1 ro'ftdy''■ t'aliei'i. ";'Tho Ita'y; liolil's, aiid conditions to-'be domanded arc'similar to those, fixed for tho' Commonwealth by the Arbitration ..Court, there. These are briefly as ! ' '"""f;--Pay of/masters at/from J!25 to it 3 per. month; first officers'from «£IG to ,£2O; sccond from ,£ls to ,£l7, third from ,£l2 to £U, and fourth and under =£1(1; with 2s. Cd. per hour overtime foj:.officers; an eight hour day in port afloat sea. About 300 'masters and: officers tare,; affected, aiid' if"is l)elievcd that, owners of vessels.UJS to! 10'00atlftM> only willj'bc cfitgd, and it is-liroposed' to'include isailing vessels with auxiliary power carrying . an engineer. : If ' found : necessary, .(through conciliation- failing), the guildwill appeal lo the 'Arbitration- Court. '•