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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1921, Page 5

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NO SIGNS OF CHANGE, ' , THE MANUKA SAILS. - STILL STRANDED, By- Telegraph.—Press Assn.- 4 -Copyright. Received Jau. 13, 11.5 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 13. The Union Company’s passenger ■ steamer Manuka sailed from here for ■ Wellington at eleven o’clock this morn-! ing. There are no signs of a settlement of the shipping strike, both sides refusing to negotiate except on their own terms. Most of the companies are giving their staffs their annual holidays. Five hundred stranded New Zealanders held a meeting at the Town Hall, at which Mr. Blow (the New Zealand Government Agent) stated that he had cabled to the New Zealand Government asking that a steamer be' sent to transport the stranded people, and he received a reply asking him to try to persuade the Union Company to carry as many as possible on the Manuka and the Moeraki, bdt no mention was made of a Government steamer. He presumed one would not be sent. Mr. Blow added that, the Government would continue to provide for immigrants brought out under the overseas settlement scheme, but help for other necessitous eases would only be given very sparingly.

Three hundred New Zealanders departed on the Manuka, leaving about seven hundred held up. Indignation is expressed at the Union Company granting passages to Americans on the Tofua in preference to New Zealanders. Three hundred and fifty New Zealanders expect to sail on the Moeraki on the 20th inst.—“Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.