The Enna G

sails again

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Melbourne to dry doc£ loading at Nauru.she willthen resume her old run, cruising from Sydney to the Pacific Islands. She will probably

make two of these cruises before taking Nauru schoolchildren in Aus tralia home for the Christmas-New Year holidays.

The Enna G has been tied up in Wellington since May because of a black ban by the NZ Seamen’s Union and other maritime unions. The Sea men’s Union allowed the Enna G to leave Wellington, provided she does not go back to New Zealand.

The Nauru Pacific Line earlier this year planned to put the Enna G on the Auckland-Pacific Islands service, replacing the Tofua, which was with drawn in May. She went into dry dock in Wellington and while there the NZ seamen put the ban on her.

Since May, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga have been without a regular passenger service from NZ.

The NZ unions claimed they were trying to help Fijian seamen in the Enna G to get better wages and con ditions but the matter went deeper than that —the union wanted to pre serve that area for NZ seamen who had become redundant when the Tofua was withdrawn.

It has been reported that Nauru intends to take legal action against the NZ Seamen’s Union.

But next moves may come at the NZ-inspired regional shipping con ference in Waitangi, NZ, on October 25-27. The NZ Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Watt, one of the chief advocates of the conference said re cently that 80 per cent of the nations and territories in the South Pacific would be represented.