SMALL SHIPS
EQUIPMENT WITH WIRELESS ROYAL ASSENT TO AMENDING ACT The Royal Assent has been given to the amendment of the Shipping and Seamen Act of last session providing for the installation- of wireless telegraphic apparatus on small ships. It will be recalled that the amendment was put through following on the disaster which overtook the steamer Ripple. The new law came into effect as from Ist June,. 1925, and provides that the Governor-General may from time to time by Order in Council make regulations requiring any class or classes of ships Tegistered in New Zealand, or any class or classes of home-trade ships, whether registered in New. Zealand or not, to be provided with wireless telegraph installations for transmitting and receiving messages. The regulations may prescribe the nature of the installations in any ! case, and conditions for their use' and j j maintenance. Fines up to £250 may be ; imposed for breaches of any regula- | tion.- ■ Some time ago_ it was indicated by the Minister of Marine (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) that the necessary regulations j had been drafted, and. that they would be submitted, to the interested parties before being gazetted and brought into I effect. _ As soon as it was possible the I regulations would be promulgated.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8
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SMALL SHIPS
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8
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