SAFETY AT SEA

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 11

SAFETY AT SEA

LOAD LINE CONVENTION. LEGISLATION PENDING. A supplementary Gazette contains provisions of the International Load Line Convention signed at London on July 5, 1930, and subsequently ratified by the New Zealand Government. The Gazette also contains provisions of tire International Convention for the safety of life at sea, signed at London on May 31, 1929, to which the New Zealand Government has given notice of accession. It deals with tire provisions that have been made for lifeboats and other buoyant appliances, fire protection, the keeping of watches, the procedure to be adopted in the event of urgency messages, the equipment of direction-finding apparatus on passenger ships, testing bulkheads, means of egress and ingress, and other matters. . . The Gazette is isued primarily m order that the full scope of intended legislation may be realised. Though legislation still has to be introduced to bring New Zealand regulations into official harmony with those of the Convention, its main provisions for the safety load line and in regard to other matters mentioned above, have been observed by New Zealand registered vessels trading overseas for many months. Countries comprising the Convention to date are: —Germany, the Commonwealth of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, the Free City of Danzig, Spain, the Irish Free. State, the United States of America, Finland, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.