ANTIQUATED REGULATIONS.
(Press Assn.— By' Telegraph.— Copyright.) ; LONDON, June 13. It is officially stawd .-that , .ttfe .; eyid^ ence m the Titanic dis^ter eji&le^ -yhat there has been no. change fbr7'l§^ears m the Board of Trade's' regulations m relation to life-saving..:- 1 f ' Vl'V" The VPtiSi'deiit remarked that the owners had"pi;ov^ded^ appliances m excess of th€ legal requirements, thus proving that they realised tbat the number of boats tfas insufficient. --.-.' OTTAWA, June 7. Mr Stanton, Assistant Deputy Minister of Marine, "will 7&ul for England next week tx> represent Canada at a meeting that the Board of' Trade has convened for the purppsV of preparing new regulations under which passengers and crews of British sea-going ships will be guaranteed greater safety. The meeting, of. course, is one of the direct results of the- Titanic catastrophe, and will, it is hoped,', njean a complete revision of the - '; existing regulations, which are hoary with age. , Th' e Canadian marine laws are much the same, and whatever alterations are decided upon by the London -conference are therefore likely to be adopted by the Dominion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12789, 14 June 1912, Page 5
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179ANTIQUATED REGULATIONS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12789, 14 June 1912, Page 5
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