NEW SHIPPING REGULATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3138, 17 July 1917, Page 4

NEW SHIPPING REGULATION

RESTRICTING ENTRANCE TO OVERSEAS VESSELS. A Gazette Extraordinary issued last night contains regulations providing for entrance to ships not exclusively engaged in the New Zealand coastal trade of authorised persons only. The regulations state:—>' 1. No ■ person shall enter on board a seagoing ship, other than one exclusively engaged in the coastal trade "of Now Zealand, while such' ship, is moored alongside any wharf, or is in. any harbour, in New Zealand, without the permission in writing of a military authority or of the owner, master, or agent of the ship. This regulation, shall not apply to any person in the service of the Government of New Zealand 'who enters the ship on duty; or any person employed by the harbour authorities and entering the 6hip on. duty; or any member of the ship's crew, or any person who l'as engaged a passage in the ship. • 2. The master of any sucli ship shall maintain a sufficient guard on eacli gangway by which the ship can be entered. 3. If the master or any member of the ship's crew permits any person to enter, or negligently fails to prevent any person from entering, on board the snip in contravention of these regulations he shall be guilty of an offence _ against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly. i. Any constable, officer of Customs, officer of the Defence Forces, or the master or any officer of the ship may arrest without warrant any person who enters or is reasonably suspected of having entered or of being about enter any snip in breach of these regulations. 5. These regulations 6hall bo read together with and be deemed part or tlie War Regulations of November 10, lJli.