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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1485, 6 July 1912, Page 7

The effect of the language test In depleting tho supply of seamen available for service in Drilish ships can now bo gauged with approximate accuracy. According to the Annual Statements of Navigation and Shipping, there wero employed, m 190'. 37.694 foreign seamen. In 1910 this number had fallen to 30,;62. a decrease of 7232 men in three vear.;, which is alleged to bo Almost wholly attributable to the language test. Next, week tho baroue Ariel is expected to leave. Dunedin tor Maiden Island, where guano will bo leaded for tho southern port. i At 6 p.m. on Juno 15, whilst on the passago from Vancouver to Auckland, tho mail steamer Maknra passed the steamer Iveric, of Glassow, steering wett. She wished to ho reported "all well." An arrival at. Auckland from Liverpool, via wav ports, yesterday was tho P. and S. Line's steamer Morayshire. Sho is expected at Wellington on July 15. The Siiaw-Savill liner Tainui will leavo Lyttolton for Wellington early to-morrow morning, alio should arrive at her berth at the Glasgow Wharf on Monday morning. On Thursday. July 11. tho Tainui clears Wellington tor London, via way ports. Awahou, p.s., the now steamer belonging to Messrs. Levin and Comnony, i$ exnect : cd to Mi'ilto o.t Wellington'from Wnneaaui , at nbout soon to-morroTfi