RIGHT ROYAL WAGES.
LATEST FIREMEN'S DEMANDS. {By Teleifrftph.—Prcf*< A rjoclatlon.) . ChrlStchurch, January .29.. Tim watcrsido workers, .having vacated the. To Anau,. which had been used by tlwm. as a house-boat since the port was rc-open'pd some months' ago, it was decided by.the Union Company that the vetsel should return to. 'Wellington, where she was laid up prior to being brought to Lyttoltoii. When the eriw to take the vessel back, to Wellington was being signed on to-day a stumblingblock was met in the. stokehold hands, wlw demanded a siim of £.5 (and in sqmc instances as much as £7), n.ud their return faro, to Lyt.tplton, for tho tr'm to Wellington. _ These unreasonable demands were .not entertained by the company, .who offered the men 305., nud their return fare for tho run, .As tho men (who numbered eighteen) refused to m?lco tho trip except at tho figures mentioned bv them, the company has abandoned tho idea of sending the Te AiiaiJ north, and, accordingly, she will remain ' tied nn nt Lytfelton, and her crow will be paid off.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 8
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177RIGHT ROYAL WAGES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 8
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