LOCAL SHIPPING.
QUEEN TAKES UP HER RUN-.
NING TO-DAY.
Word was received this morning from Wellington by Messrs Levin and Co. to the effect' that the Queen of the South will sail for Foxton this afternoon. She is due to arrive here to-morrow morning.
Owing to the coastal service holdup, the Queen has been laid up since early last month.
The news of the Queen again taking up her running will be res eeived with a good deal of satisfaction by Foxton and Palmerston business firms, and local fiaxmillers.
COASTAL FLEET DISPUTE SETTLED. SEAMEN RESUME WORK TODAY, PRIME MINISTER PROMISES A CONFERENCE. Wellington, To-day. The deadlock between the owners of the smaller coastal steamers and the seamen, which has resulted in the coastal fleet being tied up for sis weeks and two days, has come to an end, and the seamen offered themselves for re-engagement at 10 o’clock this morning. The men decided at a special meeting ycster-, dtiy afternoon that they would re-, sums work owing to the assurance of the Prime Minister that a eon-, ference with the shipowners will be held within a fortnight on the sub-, ject of two men in a' watch, whiclj was tShe pain point in dispute, , j
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 27 October 1917, Page 2
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205LOCAL SHIPPING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 27 October 1917, Page 2
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