COMPLAINTS OF A MAN-OF-WAR CREW.
I (By Telegraph-Press Association). Auckland, Wednesday. A considerable amount of indignation ib expressed by tho crew of H.M.S. Wallaroo, at the action of the authorities in ordering the ship back to tho Islands.
The men assert that this course means wrecking tho healths, if not killing a largo number of them, inasmuch as the Island climate at this season of the year is of an almost pestilential nature, aud exceedingly trying to Europeans. They claim that they have been livo months in the Islands, during winch time they have had a wretched existence, it beine all sea work in frightful weather, besides which they have been on "saltgrub" tack all the time. At present there are nearly sixty of the crew suffering from ulcers and climatic debility, and it was solely on account of the health of the men, that the captain took the responsibility of coming across to New Zealand, in order that the crew of 200 men should have a thorough change.'
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4933, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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169COMPLAINTS OF A MAN-OFWAR CREW. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4933, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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