£300 A MONTH.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 588, 30 November 1920, Page 3

£3OO A MONTH.

SERVICE BEFORE THE WAST.

A STRIKE IN THE ARCTIC

REGIONS,

Even Arctic exploration is not immune from industrial unrest. All but three members of the crew of the Maud, in which Captain . Amunsden has been drifting in the Arctic Ocean since the summer of 1919, have struck, demanding £3OO a month. Gaptain Amunsden in his numerous expeditions must have sepnt the greater part of his life in frozen Polar seas. We have never read any account of the exact financial basis of these undertakings. The objects of those who proceed on them can hardly be materialistic, and we do not recollect ever having heard of any previous disputation among their members in terms of pounds, shillings, and pence, hours, and overtime. If one immures oneself in the Arctic by the year as a financial proposition—with an even chance of bo justification in demanding £3OO a month for service before the mast, especially in view of the increased icost of living, which Captain Amunsden and his two companions must have found painfully in evidence when doing their shopping at Nome in July last. Mr. Rhodes Disher and his pilgrims are en route to the Pacific in search of ai taxless, carefree isle in the tropics, but even in the virgin ice of an uncharted Polar Sea, one cannot, it seems, get away from strikes. Man is born to trouble.