SHIPPING AND SEAMEN.
PROPOSED CONFERENCE IN ENGLAND. COMMON LAW FOB THE EMPISE WANTED. PEE PBESB ASSOCIATION. Wbllinoton, July 10. Tke Premier, Mr Hall-Jones, referring to the New Zealand Shipping and Seamens' Act, remarked that with even all the benefits of that Act, he did not think they had gone far enough. He believed the minimum space for sailors accommodation should be 120 ft. The Imperial Government had asked for a conference between delegates from New Zealand, Australia and the Old Country for the purpose of going into the general law concerning shipping and seamen throughout the whole Empire, so that there might be one common law. The New Zealand Government had been asked to send three delegates, representing the seamen,owners and the Government. The invitation had boen accepted, and the conference, if convenient, would take place in April.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 17 July 1906, Page 2
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138SHIPPING AND SEAMEN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 17 July 1906, Page 2
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