SHIP DESERTIONS IN N.Z.
AMENDMENT TO LAW PROPOSED
ATTEMPT TO CHECK TENDENCY
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON. May 26. Proposals aimed at checking the high incidence of shin desertion are soon to be placed before Cabinet. Amendments to the law will be sought which, it is hoped, will check, if not entirely prevent, ship desertion in New Zealand.
The Minister of Marine (Mr W. S. Goosman) and the Attorney-General (Mr T. C. Webb) conferred yesterday with representatives of the Police Department, the British Seamen's Union, the New Zealand' Seamen’s Union, th* Marine Department, the Immigration Department, the Justice Department, and the Overseas Shipowners’ Federation. As a result, the proposed amendments will soon be submitted to Cabinet by Mr Webb.
Mr Webb said to-day that the conference also considered the question of placing some restriction on the admission of undesirable persons to ships in port. “It was agreed on all sides that it would be very difficult—and indeed impossible—to frame a provision which would achieve the desired object without entrenching too severely on the liberty of the subject,” said Mr Webb. He added that the matter had been left to the masters of the ships concerned. •
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26123, 27 May 1950, Page 2
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