SAFETY AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 10

SAFETY AT SEA

LOAD LINE CONVENTION

LEGISLATION PENDING

A supplementary Gazette issued today contains provisions of tho International Load Line Convention signed at London on July 5, ID3O, and subsequently ratified by the New Zealand Government. The Gazette also contains provisions of tho International Convention for tho safety of life at sea, signed at London on May 31, 1929, to which the New Zealand Government has given notice of accession. It deals with the provisions that have been made for lifeboats and other buoyant appliances, fire protection, the keeping of watches, tho procedure to be adopted in tho event of the receipt of urgency messages, tho equipment of directionfinding apparatus on passenger ships, testing bulkheads, means of egress and ingress, and other matters. The Gazette is issued primarily in order that the full scope of intended legislation may be realised. Though legislation still has to be introduced to bring New Zealand regulations into official harmony with those of the Convention, its main provisions for the safety load line and in regard to other matters mentioned above, have been observed by New Zealand registered vessels trading overseas for many months.

Countries comprising the Convention to dato are:—Germany, the Commonwealth of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, the Free City of Danzig, Spain, the Irish Free State, the United States of America, Finland, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, Now Zealand, Paraguay tho Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. ' .