CANADA’S SHIPPING.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18875, 20 February 1933, Page 12

CANADA’S SHIPPING.

REVISION OF RULES. PARLIAMENT’S BIG TASK. (Empire Press Union.) OTTAWA, January 18. The long-deferred revision of the •Canada Shipping Act, a ponderous document of 950 sections and some Bchedules, is being undertaken at the present session of Parliament, and the committee on Marine and Fisheries is Jlkely to spend a couple of months on the task. The last revision of this Act was in 1896. An attempt to bring it up to £&t» was started in 1914, but the work was abandoned on the outbreak of war. In more recent years revision was put off because of conferences and controversy concerning the exact status of component parts of the Empire, but the final obstacles were removed by the Imperial Conference of 1929. and the implementing action taken by the Imperial Parliament in the following year. The new Act, conforming to the new constitutional status, will make it plain that with oertain minor exceptions the Dominion has full power and complete authority over the shipping within its waters and ports. Attention wlll be paid the suggestion of the 1929 conference that Empire uniformity in chipping regulations was very desirable, .