SHIP SHORTHANDED
MASTER PROSECUTED INFORMATION DISMISSED (Per Press Association.) DUNJ-IDJN, this dfiy. A decision with an important bearing on the interpretation of tho Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1908, was given in the Police Court to-day by Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., in a case in which Thor Ola I: Hanncvig, master of the steamer June, was charged with voyaging from Lyttelton to Port Chalmers without a full crew, as specified by section 54 of the Act. The magistrate, after quoting authorities, hold it was ultra vires ol! the New Zealand legislature to apply the provisions of section 54 to a foreign ship employed as an intercolonial trading ship. The information was dismissed. The .facts of the ease were that a number of seamen walked off the ship at Lyttelton, the master bringing her on shoi'tliandecl.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 8
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