BILLS OF LADING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 9

BILLS OF LADING.

NEW ZEALAND CURRENCY. SEA CARRIAGE OF GOODS. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Sea Carriage of floods Bill, introduced into the House of Representatives yesterday, brings into line with Great Britain and other countries the law relating to the carriage of goods by sea. Its provisions relate not only to the carriage of goods between New Zealand ports, but between New Zealand and other countries. The Attorney-General, Mr. Mason, in explaining the bill, said it was not revolutionary as the Dominion was rather ahead of the rest of the world in such matters. The major alteration was the substitution of New Zealand currency for gold value as the term for use in bills of lading. In an explanatory memorandum it is stated that the Sea Carriage Goods Act, 1922, which the bill repeals, is the statute at present dealing with the subject, and that its provision in so far as they relate to coastwise trade are almost entirely preserved, the greatest change being in relation to the carriage of goods from New Zealand to other countries. In reply to a question the Minister Mid the bill related to an international convention relating to bills of lading. The bill, which i* technical in character. was read a second time pro forma and referred to the Statues Revision Committee. »