NO OBLIGATION
PAYMENT OF CREW
ASHORE
'■■ - The - Arbitration.. Cour.t, .has decided that, the .Union 'Steamship, .Company is not obliged 'to ; .pay tea ..and. bed allowances to the. niem'bers of the Ma.iinganu'i's prpvidor.e department in respect of. the- period between the,yessel-:being taken off .'the. .intercolonial, run "and placed in the ' San Francisc.6 service after the ldss.iOf' the Tahiti. .The' ship closed,. her <';ij\j;ercoioiiial ..articles .at_-3 p.m.,.0n. 24th,;"..Septembef last; and opene'd;.f'oreig:ii-go?ng articles,' the crew being. signed on', to be 'on board at 8 a.m. on 'the next day; -The;, Court has held that the clause in regard to the allowances'/applies only when the ship is on articles. The new" articles-were, not operative ' until 15' a.m. on 25th September. Iv any event, section'<s4 of the Shipping anS^ Seamen Act provides that' the signing-ofi! of the articles oporatesJ as a discharge.' of all oliligations arising out vof tHe expired articles, but,it is clear from the' Wording, of-'the clause'- itself.; thai :'no ■ such obligation existed as (a alleged; ■' " .' /•
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 11
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163NO OBLIGATION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 11
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