SEA PAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1921, Page 4

SEA PAY.

AN APPEAL DISMISSED

WELLINGTON, May 10. In the Arbitration Court decision was given in the Marama case, an appeal from the decision of the Magistrate, who gave judgment for the Union Steamship Company on a claim by Mr. Bailey, Inspector of Awards, for enforcement of the cooks’ and stewards’ award. The claim was for an extra day’s sea pay on a Sunday in July last year. The vessel was timed to leave Papeete at 4 p.m. on the day in question. Owing to some of the crew not coming aboard the vessel remained at the wharf till 8 p.m. proceeded fi\e hundred yards out and anchored !• r the night. She commenced her voyage at daylight next day. The quest m was, as the vessel left port on Sunday, whether each steward should be paid an extra day’s sea pay. The Court held that if the vessel were proceeding on her voyage but was stopped for reasons of prudence or other sufficient vcasons before she reached the outer lunitr of the port, she was deemed to he at »ea. In the present case the captain had no intention when he left the wharf of proceeding to sea He did not want to have any further difficulty in keeping members of the or w on hoard the ship, and for that reaso i decided to move the vessel to an anchorage in the stream. The evideive was that it was inadvisable to negotiate the narrow entrance after dark. The captain had no intention of doing so The ship, therefore, had not left hoi moorings “to proceed to sea.” The Magistrate’s decision was upheld and the appeal dismissed.