A SEAMAN'S TRANSFER.
[by telegraph.— association.] Wellington, Thursday. Mr. Riddell, S.M., gave judgment yesterday in charges under the Shipping and Seamen Act against Captain Swtcliffe, master of the s.s. Tongariro. Defendant was charged with having failed to discharge a .certain seaman (who had been transferred to another vessel belonging to the same company) in the presence of the Superintendent of Marine, and secondly with having failed to sign and give the seaman a certificate of .discharge. - The magistrate held that the admitted facts did hot amount to a termination of the engagement, and did: not constitute an offence under the first charge, but in the second charge he considered that even in the case of the transfer of a seaman from one ship to another shipmasters should comply with section 56, which defendant had not done. A fine of 20s, with £3 10s costs, was imposed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13870, 2 October 1908, Page 7
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146A SEAMAN'S TRANSFER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13870, 2 October 1908, Page 7
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