WESTRALIA DELAYED
CREW DEMAND INCREASE IN PAY,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, May 2. The steamer Westralia was to have left for the south at 2 p.m. yesterday, but was delayed on account of a demand by the sailors and firemen for increased' pay for tho next trip. The company intends to withdraw the vessel from the New Zealand coastal trade after arrival at Dunedin, and transfer her to the Australian coastal trade. When she arrived here on Thursday the crew were paid off. On being asked to sign on again to-day they rehised unless the company would agree to pay eighteen pounds for the trip to Dunedin and Melbourne, and throw in a free return passage to New Zealand. The crew is a New Zealand one, and for the trip members are entitled to intercolonial rates of £10 a month for firemen and £8 a month for sailors. These rates were offered, but were'refused. Tho 'trouble was later settled by the company agreeing to pay the firemen £18 per man and the sailors £15 for tlie trip to Melbourne, with a free passage back to Auckland. This course was adopted rather than have the vessel detained, and she sailed for Dunedin on Saturday evening about five hours late.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 7
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208WESTRALIA DELAYED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 7
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