SHIPPING AND SEAMEN.
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, lest Dißht. Tbo Premier, Mr Hall Jones, referring to tho New Zealand Shipping and Seamen’s Aot, remarked that with even all tho benefits of that Aot he did not think they had yet gone far enough. He bulieved the minimum space for sailors’ accommodation should be 120 feet. Tho Imperial Government had askod for a conference between delegates from Now Zealand, Austreilia, and the Old Country for tho purpose of going into the general law oonaerning shipping and seamen throughout thß whole Empire, so that there might be one common law. Tho Now Zealand Government had been askod to send three delegates, representing seamen, owners, and the Government. The invitation had been accepted, and the conference, if convenient, would take place in April.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1810, 17 July 1906, Page 3
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131SHIPPING AND SEAMEN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1810, 17 July 1906, Page 3
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