MARINE SALVAGE WORK.
- —— - CHIEF JUSTICE’S VIEWS. Press Associu.tia.ri Tel«traxnWELLINGTON. June 26. Giving judgment to-day for £9OO in a case brought by the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, owners of the coastal steamer Tainui, for salvage.-of a steamer in a West Coast (North Island) port, the Chief Justice, sitting in Vice-Admiralty jurisdiction, spoke of the encouragement of vessels to perform transport services for New Zealand. He said that if for the performance of salvage services large sums are to be paid to local steamers, overseas shipowners may well feel chary of sending vessels to New Zealand' for transport purposes, or if they do send them, they would charge heap' freights. The result of that will be very injurious to every producer in the country, and it would be better for the country as a whole if it were possible to make salvage services reasonable in order to encourage foriegn .shipowners to send their vessels to this country at this time of the scarcity, of transport service.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4906, 27 June 1918, Page 5
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