SAFETY OF SHIPS,

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 13

SAFETY OF SHIPS,

MARINE DEPARTMENT'S REPORT. Tho annual report of the Marine Department, ■ whinh. was laid 011 the table of the House .of .Representatives 011 Wednesday, states that a good many surveys for seaworthiness have been made, but 'it has not been necessary to formally detain any of the" vessels, as the owners .have made required repairs on bains notified what was required. Following what lias been done by the Imperial Board of Trade, a regulation lias been made providing that in the case of foreign-going passenger steamers and immigrant ships that, are required to curry more, than four boats under davits a motor-boat may bo substituted for one of the boats.

Jt is proposed to make provision in .the Estimates for another lighthouse in the North Island, and shipmasters have been asked for their opinions as to the place at which it should be erected. They have also been consulted as. to the adv'isableness of moving Moko Hinon light to one of the Chickens Islands. >

Nothing has yet been done to make it coinpulsiry on owners of boats and fislicurers to furnish returns of fish caught and cured. It was again recommended that the necessary regulations be made, so as to enable the Department to obtain reliable statistic*.