SAFETY AT SEA.
Dunedin, June M
The Minister of Uabour (Mr Laureuson) stated in the course of an address last night, that since the Titanic disaster the Union Company’s vessels had been supplied with extra boats and rafts, so that now every ship under the flag was able to carry in boats or on rafts the maximum number of persons it could take.
Mr Uaurenson added that the way in which the Union Company conducted their business generally was a great credit to themselves and New Zealand. Before leaving the Dominion, Mr Havelock Wilson, of the Seamen’s Union, had told him that the conditions under which the seamen and firemen earned a living in New Zealand, taking into account the hours of labour and the good wages, were the best in the world. Mr Wilson went on to say that larger wages were paid in some parts of the Western Pacific, but the general conditions of labour here more than made up for that.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1056, 13 June 1912, Page 3
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164SAFETY AT SEA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1056, 13 June 1912, Page 3
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