SKIP'S CAPTAIN CHARGED.
SHORT-HANDED CREW. INFORMATION DISMISSED. [TiV TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Thursday. A decision with nn important bearing on t lie interpretation of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1908, was given in the Police Court to-day by Mr. J. S. Bartholomew, S.M., in the case in which Thor Olaf Hennevig, master of the steamer June, was charged with voyaging from Lvttelton to Port Chalmers without a full crew as specified by section 64 of the Act. The magistrate held that it was ultra vires of the New Zealand Legislature to apply the provisions of section 54 to a foreign ship employed as an intercolonial trading ship. The information was, therefore, dismissed. The facts of the case were that a number of seamen walked off the ship at Lvttelton, and tho master brought the June on to Port Chalmers short-handed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 13
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