SHIPPING TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1922, Page 5

SHIPPING TROUBLES.

MOERAKI DIFFICULTY ADJUSTED. MAHENO’S CREW PAID OFF By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 18. The difficulty in regard to the manning of the Moeraki has been settled. It was announced to-day that the crew will sign on articles at 10 a.m. on Monday, and that the vessel will be dispatched for Sydney at 3 o’clock on Monday afternoon. A condition, of the settlement of the trouble is that fresh articles for the Moeraki are to be taken out. Those men who had already agreed to sail with the ship will, therefore, have to sign off the present articles. It is also learned that the crew of the Maheno, which has been held up at Sydney owing to a dispute between the engineers and the firemen, is to be paid off, and that the New Zealanders among the crew are being returned to New Zealand by the Manuka and the Makura. Had the Maheno been recommissioned at Sydney, it was feared that none of her complement of New Zealanders, who, it is stated, formed the greater part of the crew, would have been able to rejoin her. It is stated that because the New Zealand members of the Maheno’s crew are being brought back to the Dominion, and that they understand that the Maheno is to be paid off, members of the Wellington Seamen’s Union have agreed to man the Moeraki.