REPAIRING CASES IN SHIPS’ HOLDS
QUESTION OF FURTHER PROTECTION. Necessity sometimes demands that eases be renailed or repaired in ships’ holds, and the receiver of this cargo is not always aware that the necessity for reuniting or reeasing lias arisen. A suggestion was recently before the council ot (lie Wellington Chamber of Commerce that some further protection might be accorded importers, if such eases were specially marked witli paint, dr by some other method, and this suggestion lias been forwarded to the overseas shipping companies for their consideration. Pillage at New Zealand ports has now been reduced Io very minor proportions, and special precautions have been taken by the shipping companies Io reduce the evil, which was of such concern some few years ago. The suggestion now made would assist, consignees in their giving of receipts for cargo. received.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 190, 14 May 1928, Page 6
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139REPAIRING CASES IN SHIPS’ HOLDS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 190, 14 May 1928, Page 6
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