HINEMOA DISPUTE ENDS
AGREEMENT BETWEEN OWNER AND UNION NON-UNION CREW PAID OFF An agreement respecting the manning of the ex-Government steamer Hinemoa has been arrived at between the Seamen’s Union and the vessels’ new owner, D. W. McKay, Limited. The dispute, which resulted in the Tlinemoa’s sailing from Auckland with a non-union crew and the consequent refusal of wharf labourers at Westport to coal her, culminated in violence there. The basis of the agreement, which is in accord with the union’s demands, is that the Hinemoa shall carry six firemen, one leading A. 8., four A.B’s, one ordinary seaman and a boy. This agreement will remain in force during the coming tourist season while the vessel is engaged in the Bluff-West Coast Sounds tourist service, and for three months thereafter. At the expiration of that time the subject of the stokehold manning is to come up for further review. The wages to be paid the crew are to agree with the customary rates obtaining on the New Zealand coast. The non-union crew was paid off at Westport on Tuesday last, and 13 unionists left Wellington by the Wahine on Wednesday evening en route for Westport to man the vessel.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 11
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199HINEMOA DISPUTE ENDS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 11
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