THE NAVIGATION BILL.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12159, 6 February 1908, Page 4

THE NAVIGATION BILL.

London, February 4. The Council of the Mercantile Marine Service Association complain j that the Australian Navigation Bill occasionally but unwarrantably interferes with the prerogatives of the British Board of Trade. The, Council protests against section 369 of the Bill, and desires a revision of the parts relating to Courts of Marine Inquiry. The clause provides that i f a certificate had been cancelled by an Australian Court of Mariuo Inquiry the fact that the certificate had been returned to the officer by the Board of Trade, the authority which originally granted it, oth r than the Court of Appeal shall not enable the said master or officer to serve on. the ship in Australia in tbc capacity specified in the cancelled certificate.