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CHARGE AGAINST CAPTAIN INFORMATION DISMISSED (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. A decision with an important hearing on the interpretation of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act 1903 was given in the Police Court to-day by Mr Bartholomew S.M., in the case in which Thor Olaf Hanhevig, master of the steamer June was charged with voyaging from Lyttelton to Port Chalmers without a full crew, as specified in section 54 of the Act. The Magistrate, after quoting authorities, held that it was ultra vires of the New Zealand legislature to apply the provisions of section 54 to a foreign ship employed as an inter-colonial trading ship. The information was dismissed. The facts of the ease were that a number of seamen walked off the ship at Lyttelton, the master bringing her on short-handed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 22 January 1931, Page 7
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