UGLY INCIDENT
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MOORING LINES OF YESSEL DELIBERATELY CUT SERI'GUS POSITION '
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Wellington, Thursday. There were serious developments to-day in the maritime dispute, which threatened partial paralysis of the Dominion coastal and inter-colonial shipping. Following stormy and protracted union meetings, the ship-owners were notified of the rejection of the redueed wages .scale and the modified coh'ditions embodied in the provinciai agreement. Intimation of a virtual strike was made by the ship owners' decision to pay off all the union crews at Wellington as.from to-morrow, the only; exception so far being the Lyttelton ferry. • An ugly incident occurred to-night when the stern mooring lines of the Holmdale were deliberately cut, with the apparent object of blocking the departure of the Arahura for Nelson. A call for free labour to man the Maunganui is heing made by the -Union Company. No statement is available> but is ... is • believe d that the majority of AB's have decided to rejeet the agreement.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 523, 5 May 1933, Page 5
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161UGLY INCIDENT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 523, 5 May 1933, Page 5
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