MERCANTILE MARINE.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1919, Page 3

MERCANTILE MARINE.

THE GUILD’S DEMANDS

WELLINTGON, Jan. 27

A general meeting of the Merchant Service Guild to-day rejected the Union Company amended proposals with regard to the new agreement, and it was deeided that if ail amicable sottle T meat was not reached by the end of the month a conference of members should bo held at Wellington on February Brd. Iho seeretary( Captain I*. A. Macimloe) states Hint although the offer to the officers is within measurable distance the masters have not received the eon si (Vera t ion anticipated. The masters and officers trading out of Great Britain have received war risk money, but the Union Company did not concede this until Oct. Ist.

WAR RISK BONUS. j WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. j The award of Mr Harold Beauchamp , chairman of the Bank ol New Zealand, j arbitrator in connexion with the claim , of the Marine Engineers’ Institute for, a war risk bonus from the Union Company gives £2 10s per month to engineers in boats trading on the New Zealand coast and t’o Australia, and £5 per month in the case of engineers ’in steamers running in the danger zone. | The payment of the bonus is to he as from October Ist, 1018. and is to continue until a new agreement is made. It is liope'l that other shipping companies will into line with I lie Union Steam Ship Company.