SAFEGUARDING NAUTICAL MEN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13379, 30 March 1912, Page 3

SAFEGUARDING NAUTICAL MEN.

SHIPPING AND SEAMEN" AMEND-

MENT ACT.

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, YwU -20

The. Shipping and Seamen Awndmont ,\ct, 1911, has received l'--> 'viv.i assent, and a- proclamat'on will shortly bi> issued bringing it into fore:- u:\ let May. . Tin* Act "provides for thr- propt"- ::\\"- f;uardini;.of a seaman'p intcrcntr 'vlifn ho has. boon loft,'on shore thiaiij?!).: Imsss. ■'Tlu v onus-is plr.r-r]! oi i-'-1 i-*-p. ors in sik'?i■ Car-oB cf pnividi1)." '■]:■< -v" of his maintenance,' and rn-dir-.-l m-hI other attendance, and ff>:- '!■■ <-r'i •■>< his burial wherp illness or ifci:|--t terminates in death in New Zoala-i!.

For a broach of tlnv<>. ;ijkl o+'>"- '•--o. I £100 is provided.