FIREMEN WALK OFF
Vessel Sails Without Them By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, January 29. Refusing to go to sea while one of their number was missing, 15 firemen off the overseas vessel Mamari walked ashore at Timaru to-night, the vessel eventually sailing without them. The vessel was timed to sail at six o'clock, but at this hour two or three men were missing. The captain decided to give them half an hour’s grace, but at 6.30 there was still one man absent. The captain intimated his intention of sailing, but the tiremen walked off the ship in their working clothes An hour later the men still refused to sail, and the vessel put to sea, leaving the firemen behind. They were in an awkward predicament, as many of them wore scantily clad and had no money for a night’s lodging. The men were eventually taken in at the Sailors’ Rest, and it is understood they will be sent to rejoin tho vessel at Lyttelton,
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 4
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163FIREMEN WALK OFF Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 4
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