THE P. AND O. COMPANY.
We extract the following from the Sydney “ Morning Herald ”: Some facts in connection with the great Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company that are not generally known, will no doubt be read with interest by other than those immediately concerned in the shipping trade of Port Jackson. The officers and seamen of the company are paid higher wages than those of any other company whose vessels sail out of London. The men are never discharged at the termination of a voyage except for gross misconduct. The result of this policy has been that men have been known to join a vessel immediately after leaving the stocks, and have only terminated their connection with her when she has gone to the bottom. Several of the men on board the R.M.S, Rosett, at present in the harbour, have been in the company’s service nearly thirteen years.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2557, 1 June 1881, Page 2
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149THE P. AND O. COMPANY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2557, 1 June 1881, Page 2
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