AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

i DASSENOKRS HELP UP. (deceived this day at 9.30 a.m). SYDNEY, .March d. Sir Robert Horne sails by the Xi ;> ara oil Thursday, not tin- laliiti. He savs: “I wish to make it perlectly dJar that my New Zealand trip was cancelled only heeae.se ol the dispute between the cooks and owners of the Ulimaroa. As there seems no likelihood of the steamer sailing lor some days to come I must abandon all m\ plans and go home by the quickest route* nvailaMo.’ A group of New Zealand passengers held "up by the cancellation of the sailing of the Ulimaroa draw attention to the unemployment among seamen and stewards who informed M r Coates on 50lh February that more than AK> cooks and stewards and Irani seven to eight hundred seamen in New Zealand were unemployed. I a>sage money was returned to over AX) passengers. ULIMAROA E.\ID UP. SVEN KV. March lb l iiere is no settlement of the lh- ] mama dispute and the crew were paid off and the vessel laid U P- I "' sp quent on this Sir Robert 11.™ » compelled to curtail Ins stay m Nc Zealand and sails by the Tahiti and goes on direct by lier- \ NARROW ESCAPE. SYDNEY. Mareli (>. ; Uacinr- in the speedway at top speed • Spencer Stratton bad a sensational ' escape when be skidded am 11 machine turned a complete somersaul . and crashed through a fence, narrow . r missing a spectator. Stratton esenpeo with slight iniwri??!