SHIPPING LOAD LINES
HARMFUL TO NEW ZEALAND
CONFERENCE. PROPOSAL
(Received 27th June, 2.;, p.m.)
LONDON, 2Cth June. Australian and New Zealand delegates to tho Loadlin- Conference are perturbed because the foreign delegates o£ tho Zone Committee are desirous of placing soctions of the Australian and New Zealaud coasts within summer and ! winter zones, causing confusion throughout Australasian shipping, and also resulting in great losses to those parts within the winter-zone.' Australia is safeguarded even if the Conference_ decides because her constitution provides for the enforcement of a separate Shipping Act, but New Zealand will be obliged to concur if Britain agrees, because she is unable to pass a separate Shipping Act without the Imperial Parliament's consent. So far it is understood that British delegates favour the foreigners' proposals, and therefore the Australasian delegates are holding up the Zone Committee in the hope of obtaining a reconsideration of tho zoning proposals before submission to tho' General Committee for final ratification, i
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1930, Page 11
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