DOMINION COASTAL TRADE.
SHIPMASTERS v. OWNERS. AUCKLAND, January 16. The New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation forwarded to the Auckland Harbour Board to-day a copy of a letter from the Coastal Masters’ Association intimating that the members of the latter body were unable to comply with the conditions of the regulation requiring that a seaman be kept on board by day and night to answer to the challenge of officials. The masters had stated that if this regulation were enforced they could not accept the responsibility, and if nothing could be dona in the matter, then they would have no alternative but to notify their owners that they would vacate their positions. The shipowners urged that the matter was one of serious import to those connected with the vessels, and that further consideration be given to it, with a view to overcoming what was likely to become a deadlock, resulting possibly in the lay-ing-up of a number of vessels,-and thereby ! interfering with the trade of tho port, i and forcing an increase in the rates of carriage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 3
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175DOMINION COASTAL TRADE. Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 3
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