THE AWATEA’S CAPTAIN
A CHALLENGED REMARK. HAD REFERENCE TO STOWAWAYS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, July 16. The master of the Awatea, Captain Davey, interviewed regarding the motion of protest passed by the New Zealand Federation of Labour against his alleged remark in New Zealand that ‘‘Nobody works in this blasted country,” said he did not want to discuss it, and preferred the matter to be closed.
Captain Davey added that if he did make the statement, attributed to him, it had no reference to New Zealand workers, but applied to stowaways. He had been on the bridge for some hours and was suffering from an attack of influenza when interviewed, and did not intend his statement to be for publication.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5
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121THE AWATEA’S CAPTAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5
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