The Archive · 1907

NEWCASTLE TRADE

reagent port and give better wpnsals are being made to enlarge

nisi there are in an wnfotonate willies to trading bouts.—Shipping.

A few days ago out of eighty. ito ships in the port no less than set bat rare unable to leave owing to writen were loaded and ready for there being' an insufficient number Te? wake up their fall complement.

ets there ix a system the sailors ashore 1°" Boarding house shanghaiingg Pes and others induce crews of THT atFived vessels to desert, and ther Oe, Range with captains "of "boats to take them on at so much per head, obtaining from £60 to £100 for " crew. It reads like a story of fifty years ago instead of an anthent i p-to-date under: methods. The authorities are taking strong measures to remedy this state of affairs,

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