STEAMER DELAYED
4 TROUBLE WITH STOKERS. BV TBLEGRUm • ' Auckland) November 15. The Union Company’s cargo steamer Kaponga, was delayed this evening owing to trouble with the stokehold hands The steamer was ready to sail for Napier at 5 o’clock, but was one fireman short. After waiting two hours for the missing man, the captain decided to anchor the steamer in the stream, bid the remainder of the stokehold hands refused to take her from the whnrf The missing man returned shortly afterwards, but bv that time the stokers had decided that they objected to sailin; with the ship’s cook. Tt is hoped to get the vessel away at a late hoar.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 10
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111STEAMER DELAYED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 10
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