MANNING BRITISH SHIPS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9015, 30 November 1907, Page 2

MANNING BRITISH SHIPS.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S VIEWS. Press Association— Copy right. Received Nov. 80, 3.53 a.m. Loudon, November 39. Representatives of a number of trades unions waited on Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, relative to the enforcement of powers for the proper manuiug of British ships. Mr George said that it would be unwise to rush ship owners all at once with every kind of reform. More had been done in the last two years to benefit seamen than during the previous thirty. The business of the legislature was.to force the reluctant and recalcitrant minority up to the level of the better tvpo of shipowners. Manning was' not merely a question of numbers, but also of efficiency aud competency. Ho promised to recommend the Advisory Committee to consider the question of undermanning, and added that much depended on the improvement of conditions in the mercantile marine. Sailors, too, must remember they had also a duty to perform. They were not altogether free from blame themselves.