OUR SHIPPING LAWS.
(per press association.)
Wellington, This Day
A deputation of the Seamen’s Union of New Zealand waited on tho Minister of Marine urging the consolidation of the shipping laws of the colony, and to bring under his notice the recommendations affecting seamen adopted at tho recent Conference of the Trade and Labour Councils. It was also suggested that the nautical adviser be made Registrar-Gen-eral of seamen in New Zealand, and that the provision of tho Imperial Act of 1897, making vessels unseaworthy where undermanned, be adopted in the Colony. Hall-Jones replying said, he thought it was well-known that the shipping laws in the colony had been taken in hand by the Government for some time, and were well advanced. The work of consolidating the-acts was generally accepted by Parliament with but little discussion, but where tho amendments were introduced it was a question of time. Some of the recommendations suggested seemed to him to be reasonable. While not clear about others, he promised careful consideration and concluded by stating that the shipping masters were doing good work. The deputation admitted that the New Zealand law was far in advance of the Imperial law as regards merchant shipping.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 April 1901, Page 3
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199OUR SHIPPING LAWS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 April 1901, Page 3
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