WATERSIDE DISPUTE.
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THE RON A DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, .March 25
After nearly lour days’ idleness work was resumed oil tlie Ilona this afternoon. Mr P. Hally (Conciliation Commissioner) addressed the waterside workers in the morning, hut his proposals were rejected. However, after midday, a settlement was reached on the basis that the tide; men whom the stevedores refused to employ should he given work on board the Ilona in discharging the vessel instead of working in the shed. Shortly after work was resumed, however, a hitch occurred, owing to one of the two molt objecting to working on the Ilona, and demanding to he empluved in the shed. This was refused. and he. with twenty outer men from the shed, left otf work. .Men from the sugar refinery were then employed in the place of these men. the other watevsiders not objecting. CAPTAIN ACQUITTED. SYDNEY, March 20. Captain Thomas, the master of the Voltunnia, whose arrest was cabled on » arch 11. was discharged, the Magistrate ruling that the information contained in the warrant issued at Perth was defective.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1925, Page 1
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184WATERSIDE DISPUTE. Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1925, Page 1
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