SHIPPING DISPUTES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING DISPUTES

.niTIUMW INI) N.Z. OABI.B ASSOCIATION

REASON FOR CHANGE. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. Jam !•>• Members of the Seamen’s Union attended the Mercantile Mamie Office vesterdav only to inform the owners that the Union had changed the picking up place to the Mechanics s Tn.stiSonie members stated that this decision was to test the sincerity ot the owners’ objections to the Communis Hall on account of had loci. Hon. butthis statement was discounted l.> otiuis

in Union circles. The steamer Baldma. at Newea>. • obtained a crow without d.H.culty hi, vessel was not alfccted by the -t.ik. , hut was laid up in December m.ing lack of cargoes. , While the Adelaide. MMmu.nc .ml Fremantle branches of thoV.itei, Federation refused to work the -team or Clan Monroe, the. Sydney . a,m-i •uul it< executive nromised ,o umk on her arrival at Sydney, but through the enforcement of the _Preterenco the owners are y,laced in an • ' • nredieainent. A ' conference to discuss the position was held, but no statement as to the result was made.

STEAMER COMMISSIONED. _ HOBART. Jan. L>. The Tasmanian Government has de-r-iclecl to place the steamer Poolta m commission between the mainland and Tasmania to carry produce and -u,plies. The union has guaranteed -h - APPLICATIONS for PASSENGERS. MELBOURNE, Jan. loThe Tasmanian Premier, Air Lyons, informed Air Bruce that .applications for passages had been lo with the shipping offices, ot thousand are urgent eases. requirements amount to nine hundic tons weekly.