AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SHIPPING DEADLOCK, A SETTLEMENT REACHED. SYDNEY, January 10. The Union S.S. Company offered the men a bonus of 35s per month from trip to trip, commencing from signing on until the Commonwealth declares the ports mentioned free from influenza. In addition the company agrees to pay the wages of any member of the crew contracting the disease, and also £SOO to the dependents of any member of the crew dying from influenza. If the men accept these terms the Karori said for Vancouver to-day and the Moeraki and Makura for New Zealand on Monday, ahid other steamers a day or two later. Later news states that the men have accepted the Union Company’s terms.
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Taihape Daily Times, 13 January 1919, Page 4
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116AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taihape Daily Times, 13 January 1919, Page 4
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