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Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 3

A judgment of particular interest to own«rs of registered fishing launches was riven at Auckland yesterday by Mr Frazer, S.M.. in the case against the master of the fishing launch Hero, who was charged that on Sunday, January €B. being the master of a steamship- tinder the Shipping and Seamen Act, he took the steamship on an excursion without the boat having a certificate of survey. It was admitted that the launch was a registered fishing boat, and that on the date in question the defendant took a party of friends on a fishing excursion to Waiheke, the party •subscribing to pay for benzine. His "Wor"ship held that while a registered fishing boat of less than 10 tons was regarded "as a fishing boat for the purposes of the ■Fisheries Act so long as her registration subsisted, no matter for what purpose she might be used, still she might temporarily be digested of that status for the purposes .of the Shipping and Seamen Act, and become a pleasure boat, and be entitled to the. exemption allowed to pleasure yachts by the laths' Act so long as she retained that ch. tacter. To hold otherwise would Tw equivalent to ruling that the owner of a regwterwi fi>hing launch was for no apparent reason 4»ban*d from the privilege of entertaining his relatives and friends, -.vnich mmm graotad freely to the owner of a simila. Ywsoi which was not so registered. The information was dismissed. For duldrar-'s hacking cough at night; Woods' Great P«ppermint Core, la 6d, 2a 6L