SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1925, Page 2

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.]

DEPORTATION BOA HD. SYDNEY, Od. 1-1

Alter sitting twenty-seven days the Deportation Board, so far ns loin Walsh’s case is concerned, abruptly closed to-day. Mr Watt (counsel for Walsh) said that after yesterday’s adjournment. lie and his tellow counsel had gone carefully into the whole matter. He then submitted a statement protesting against the Board and against the inhuman proposal to tear from his family and send to perpetual exile the father of seven children, all natives of the Commonwealth, and lour of them still infants, ami all at the behest of the huge shipping combine with which the business interests of at least one member ol the 1-ederal Mmistrv were closely associated. The statement added that counsel could not close Walsh’s ease or do justice to il. unless it im luded the evidence which the Board had refused to receive. Asked if he intended to proceed. Mr Watt said that tin- statement submitted spoko tor it sol I. Mr l.ainb. Crown Counsel, said the Board had submitted too long to vain repetition of evidence. lie asked me Board to let Mr Watt take what course ke liked, hut to grant no further adjournment. The Chairman announced the Board had no alternative but to close the Walsh inquiry. The case against .lacoh Johnson was adjourned tor a week.

LEITH I.M’S SF.AMEN. CHRISTCHURCH. Oci. 1C A batch of eleven seamen, numbers of the crew of the Feitrim, appeared this afternoon at the FyUellon Magistrate’s Court, before Mr IF P. ''*ddowson. S.M. The men were charged with “disobedience to lawful commands and with combining to impede the progress of the vessel.” Mr C. IF Fphan appeared for C’apt. Hols-rtson. mastoi of the Feitrim. The men were unrepresented. All pleaded guilty to tin charge of continued disolH'diemv. l-u----other charges were withdrawn. Each man was sentenced to gaol lot six weeks. At to-day’s meeting ol the ( anterburv A. and P. Association, it was deckled that the Government he congratulated on the stand it took m regard to the seamen’s strike. One speakei to the motion said that it was one ot the wisest, things that could have been done and in the face of an election U had required some nerve and courage to do it.

SHIPS MUST BE MANNED. BRISBANE. Get- I F Speaking at Oyinpie. Mr Bruce reiterated the statement, that On ships must he manned, adding possible that trade unionism, dominateu hv 'the extremists, might refuse m Iliad them. II that occurred tinships must, and would be loaded. It might also he necessary to protevd tin- men, and should the Slate l.'»-erim-nt fail to do this, the Federal Government would st.-p in and alb'ii. tin* noc-ossary protection acting uiulei power of the King’s peace of the Commonwealth and of the constitution. a power which had never beloie been exercised. U’CKFAND POSITION. ACCKI.AND, Oct. IF

The Port Hocking and Devon sailed yesterday for Wellington, the funnel manned by some of the original crew, assisted by engineers trom other steamers ot tin* same company. 'The Devon left shortly beloie live o’clock in the aft 1-1-111101! . her sinkers, who are in prison, being replaced >.' volunteer labour. The ship does not e-iri v able seamen, llu- deck work being performed by 2S cadets. tier departure was delayed owing to the conks and stewards refusing lo cook or disk up loud for volunteer stokers. However no difficultv was exponciic.-d m Idling vacancies. All arrangements have been made for the Waimana aim Mat a kana to sail to-day. Ph-iuv ol free labour is said to he offering. After the Waimana and Mat aka nil. the next idle vessels to leave will be the Trcverbyii. and the Zinul-Zinal will go to Nauru Island to load phosphates. The Tivvcrhvu has a cargo I rum New York for discharge at Wellington. I.yltelton. Dunedin and I Inland. B-d i ships should depart at all early date. >,* V cti mimum from the s i nu i * Ttovorhvn uriv ->cutcm-c«] t<* uveUimpri>oillliemt tlu>* imo niiiiA ho I J' obedience of lawful commands. tinMagistrate intimating that if they weld hack to the ship, the sentence would not lie onlorcod. Out of eleven ships held up at this port, only three remain. 'The Trever|>y 11 sailed this morning, and the Mataknmi and Waimana follow, all bourn, south. This leaves only the Athene-. Tainui and Zinal.