SAILORS LEFT ON SHORE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 3

SAILORS LEFT ON SHORE.

LIABILITY OF SHIPOWNERS. (From our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. Oct. 10. The amendment of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act, introduced by th 0 Minister of Marine this afternoon. _ deals principally l with the legal position of seamen left on shore. Men ill c apacitated by illness or accident, and left on shore, will be deemed to be discharged when the ship is a foreign-going vessel, and the fuil amount of wages due to seamen must be deposited by the master or the agent of the vessel with the superintendent, with an additional £SO to defray the expenses of maintenance and treatment of the man and of his passage hack to. the port of engagement, or of his burial in case of Ins death in New Zealand. A clearance will not be granted to the ship until this provision has been complied with- Application for a passage back to the port of engagement must be made by the seamen within seven days after he has been certified to be convalescent-, or else the right to the passage will be forfeited. The balance of the deposit remaining unexpended will be refunded. In the case of a seaman: left on shore from an intercolonial or Heine trading ship, the owner will be liable for the full amount of wanes to which the seaman, is entitled rthe cast of the- maintenance and attendance on the. seaman during his incapacity and thy cost of his buiial where the illness or accident terminates his death, in New Zealand.