SHIPMASTERS ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1898, Page 6

SHIPMASTERS ASSOCIATION

Captain Kennedy, Secretary of the Shipmasters' Association, in his annual report, states that the expenses in connection with law costs, costs of enquiries, and. grants from the benevolent fund, have been unusually heavy during the past year. The present membership of the Association is 195. is made to the deaths of Captains Holiiday (Harbour-master at "Wellington), Fry (barqueTVoosung),Ander{•on (Waiicare), and Levack (Mamari). Since the lhianoial year 1891-92, the sum of £L' 73 13s Id lias been expended in costs of Courts of En<|uir3', :in d for legal assistance to members in connection with -the same. During the same period £240 has been expended from the Benevolent Fund and paid 1o widows of members and members who have been unemployed for a period of over three months. An active member having died quite recently, his widow Avill be entitled to the sum of £20, in addition to the sum above stated, making a gross total expenditure of £525 13s 4d. Captain Kennedy concludes his report as follows :—""Wliilo: — ""Wliilo congratulating the members on the satisfactory condition of the affain of and the excellent work done by the Association, I wish to comment on th«i total lack of interest displayed by the various shipping companies throughout the colony towards the Association,which has since its inception been consistently working for and has been instrumental in recommending the erection of the additional lighthouses and beacons referred to m this and previous reports, thereby considerably reducing the danger to life and property on the New Zealand coast. In view of these facts, I thing that it would be a gracious act if some of the leading companies would show a little interest and encouragement towards the Association by occasionally making a slight donation to the Benevolent Fund."

The first moonlight excursion of the season, under the auspices of the Petone Hand, took place lust evening. About 400 persons were -conveyed from, the city nnd Petone by the steamer Duchess to Day's Uay, where, in the large pavilion, dancing was engaged ia to the music of the "band.