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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 10

Shipping managers are often faced with many troubles, more particularly in regard to unruly crews. More than one man connected with the visit of the cargo steamer ■ Erriba to Dunedin commenced to wear a worried look shortly after the ship arrived (says the “Otago Daily’ Times”). This vessel has a reputation which would cause any shipping manager or clerk to worry. Trouble was experienced with her crew from the day she left an English port some months ago for Montreal. The crew, to use the words of one of the officers, “played merry ” throughout the voyage from Montreal to New Zealand. There was trouble of a serious nature at Panama, which was intensified durinj the time the Erriba remained at Au?tt7nnd. There were signs of discontent when se reached Wellington, and it became more evident during the few days she was at Lyttelton. The police were kepi busy rounding up the unruly ones at all the ports named. Dunedin, fortunately for the shipping company concerned, escaped anv unpleasantness, but the company’s officials spent many anxions hours The dav the Erriba was ready to sail for Sydney, three policemen and one nf the* shipping company’s officials stood on the wharf near the shin “Six men are missing." said the official when the pilot was about to board the ship. The neuro xtrr not vprv rhonrins?. hut iho pilot hoarded the vessel, the missing mon wore located, and having rejoined the shin, the linos wore cast off nf 4 p.m.. and the Erriba steamed down channel te the