SEAMEN'S EYE-BIGHT TESTS.
Per Press Association. Wellington, August 8. To-day a dopulation from the Merchant Shipping Guild waited on the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Marine, lo complain that tho Union Company insisted on oflL-ers going through tho eye-sight test every live years, apart altogether from tho test provided by the Marine Board under the Ship, ping and Seamen's Act. The Minister said his own idea was that tho test S diould simply be in regard to color, md reading the chart at a reasonable distance, hut he recognised the necessity of protecting passengers and crows, and the Government could hardly bring in legislation which would prohibit the Union Company making regulations of its own. The company's object was oyidently to sec that pas3engors and property were protected by having mon of keen and efficient eyesight.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8177, 9 August 1906, Page 2
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