THE UNION COMPANY
A PROGRESSIVE BODY. By Telegraph— "Press Association. Dunedin, Tuesday. The Minister of Labor stated in the course of an address last night that since the Titanic disaster the Union Company's boats had been supplied with extra boats and rafts, so that now every ship under the flag was able to carry in the boats or on rafts the maximum number of persons it could take. Mr. Laurenson added that the way the Union Company conducted its business generally was a credit to themselves and New Zealand. Before leaving the Dominion Mr. Havelock Wilson had told him that the conditions under which seamen and firemen earned their living in New Zealand, taking into account the hours of labor and the good wages, were the best in the world. Mr. Wilson went on to say that larger wages were paid in some parts of the Western Pacific, but the general conditions of labor more than made up for that.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 12 June 1912, Page 5
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160THE UNION COMPANY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 12 June 1912, Page 5
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