SHIPS’ LOADLINE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 11 July 1930, Page 7

SHIPS’ LOADLINE

COX VENTION SIGNED

INCREASING SAFETY

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 8

A convention giving; the maximum loading for all merchant ships belonging to 27 nations engaged in international trade has been signed at the international leadline conference which has just, ended in London. The convention was signed on behalf of the following Governments: Australia, Canada, Chile, Cuba. Denmark, Finland. France. Germany. Great Britain. Greece. Iceland, India. Irish Free State. Janan. Latvia, Mexico. Netherlands, X'ew Zealand, Norway. Pern, Poland, Portugal, Spain. Sweden, the Union of South Africa, the Soviet Republics and the United States. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, who nresided, described, in his concludig speech, the convention as “a great means of placing the international oversea carrying trade of the world on a basis of safety isuch as has never hitherto been attained.” The convention provides for increases of free-boards in winter months, particular] v in the smaller classes of ships; defines with increased precision the methods to secure the closing of openings in the weather decks and the sides of ships and for the protection of the crew, and revises the seasonal areas that regulate the loading limits of all ships.