Meat ship: no early departure
The Pacific Fruit, the Taiwanese vessel berthed at Lyttelton with a warrant for her arrest and a writ for $3 million on her mast, seems destined to remain in port for at least a few days.
Solicitors for the owners of the vessel, the Great Pacific Navigation Company, have reportedly filed a memorandum of . conditional appearance in the High Court in Wellington, which is a precondition to having the arrest warrant lifted to allow the ship to sail from Lyttelton to Tasmania.
However, no action is likely to be taken until later in the week at the earliest. ?The Pacific Fruit had to return to Timaru with meat rejected by Iraq, and she came into Lyttelton on March 31 for repairs. She, has been occupying the,. No. 7 East berth since her arrival. She cannot be shifted to another berth nor can she sail without the permission of the registrar of the High Court, who has legal custo- " dy of the vessel at present:
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