IRKSOME RULE.
TO CAPTAINS AND OWNERS. (By TclcEraph—Press Association.) Auckland, January 16. The New. Zealand Shipowners' Fedora*lion has forwarded to the Auckland Harbour Board to-day a copy of a letter from the Coastal Masters' Association, intimating that members of the latter' body wero unable to comply frith tho conditions of the regulation requiring that a seaman Tie kept 011 board by (lay and night to answer the challenge of tho board's officials. The masters had stated that, if this regulation -were enforced, they could not accept the responsibility, and, if nothing could bo done in the matter, they would have no alternative but to notify owners that they would vacate their positions:. Tho shipowners urged that, the matter was one of serious import to those connected with vessels, and that further consideration be given with a view to overcoming what was - likely to become a deadlock, resulting possibly in the layingup of a number of vessels, and thereby interfering with the trade of the port, and forcing an increase ill rates of carnage.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 17 January 1912, Page 4
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173IRKSOME RULE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 17 January 1912, Page 4
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