FIREMEN FOR THE MAORI.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 November 1913, Page 5

FIREMEN FOR THE MAORI.

HOLDING UP FERRY SERVICE.

DEPRECATED BY SEAMEN

OUNEDIN, Last Night. It is officially stated by Mr Belcher that a request was made to fill the positions of seven firemen, who were leaving, the Maori at Lyttelton yesterday, and successful efforts, were made in Dunedin to secure the number required. The men went forward by train to-day to join the Maori at Lytteitpm. The opinion is held in. Dunedin amongst many *tf the apainen. thdt-the strikers in Wellington; aro niqving ftr the direction of completely alienating any public. sympathy which may now 5 be felt for" them, by'trying; to hold up the ferry service.. It is pointed out that should the running of the ferry steamers be stopped, any person who might receive an urgent call from' one Island to the other, to visit a sick bed or the death-bed of a friend or relative, or attend funeral obsequies, he would be barred from reaching his and then there is al% the 6erious inconvenience which will arise, should the passenger and mail traffic from the Bluff to Auckland be interfered with by the enforced laying up of the ferry boats. Furthermore, it is asserted that as these steamers are not carrying cargo, their running cannot materially affect the position of the strikers.