ARBITRATION COURT.
THE SEAMEN’S DISPUTE. Telegrnnh.—Press Association Wellington, August 17e The Arbitration Court resumed the hearing of the seamen’s and firemen s dispute already partially heard at Auckland in May and Dunedin in June. The claims by the union and the reductions sought by the companies were published at the time of the first hearing. The Court is taking to-day evidence of the smaller shipowners. The general manager of Richardson and Company, I Napier, stated that the company’s vesI seis were small and the earnings materially decreased. He quoted figures showing that the earnings of the seamen and firemen on the company’s ships I amounted to nearly £3OO per annum on the average. On some of the company s •smaller vessels the wages were less than £300; some men received up to £4OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1922, Page 5
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133ARBITRATION COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1922, Page 5
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