THE MAORI’S FIREMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 6 January 1913, Page 6

THE MAORI’S FIREMEN.

DEMAND AN APOLOGY. THE POSITION UNALTERED. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 0. There is little fresh to report regarding the difficulty on tho Maori. The steamer is still tied up at the wharf, and .there seems every prospect of her remaining there. The aggrieved men demapd that the Press Association’s apology he published with the signature of the person who originally communicated the intelligence to that office. Asked to-day what the attitude of the men was, Mr Young, secretary of tho Seamen’s Union, told a Post representative that the position this morning is just Shout the same as it was on Saturday, that is, that the men require the signature of the person who procured the information, and that the apology he published in the press. If that is done, they are quite prepared to at once sign articles and return to work. ' Questioned as to what he had done since Saturday to secure crews for the ship, Mr Young said: “I have done what I can to try and get the ship away, hut it is a sheer impossibility, and I am afraid that if the matter is not fixed up very shortly much more sqrious complications will arise.” Is there any apparent inclination on the part of the men to go hack to the ship? the Union secretary was asked. “No,” he replied. “They seem to he just as strong and determined in their attitude as they were on Saturday.” . Meantime the Union Company us obliged to refuse all passengers hooking for the Maori, and even now it is. very difficult to say whether even the' Te Anau will he able to sail tor Lyttelton to-night. It is understood the firemen win meet at 2.30 this afternoon to finally discuss the position.