SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10175, 24 October 1898, Page 6

SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.

(Pbess association. Telegkam.) ■'■•:■ WELLINGTON, October 22----l Captain Kennedy, Secretary of the New Zealand Shipmasters' Association, states in nis annual report that the expenses in connection with law costs, costs of enquiries, and grants from the benevolent fund have been unusually heavy during the.past year. The present membership of the Association is 195. Since the financial year 1891-92 the ; sum of d 8275 ! }3s 4d has 'been expended in costs of the courts of enquiry .and for legal assistance to members in connection with the same. During the same period, £240 has been expended from the benevolent fund and paid to the< widows 'Of -members, and members who.have been' unemployed for a period of over three; months. Captain • i Kennedy concludes his >repqrt £c follows :—'• While congratulating members on the satisfactory condition of affairs, and of the excellent work done by the Association, I wish to comment total lack of interest displayed by the various shipping companies throughout the colony towards the Association,which has since its. ;>nqeption been consistently working for, and has been instrumental in recommending the erection of additional ■ lighthouses and beacons, referred to in this and previous reports, thereby considerably reducing the dan- . gef to life and property on the New Zealand In view 6f these facts, I think that it would be a gracious act if some of the leading companies would show a little interest in, and encouragement towards, the Association, by .occasionally making a alight donation to the benevolent 1 fund."