A SHIPPING CASE.
WHAT IS A HOME TRADER? Press Association. DUNEDIN; Yesterday. On November 18, 190 G, James Tait, master of the s.s. Timaru,. a. dredge, set out. iii her on the,.voyage from Tirnaru to Oamaru. At Oamaru, on January 10_of this year, lie was proceeded. against 'by the ' Collector of Customs on an information, alleging that lie proceeded oil-the voyage ill the steamship Timaru, being a British Home-trade ship, without a full crew, as, provided by. the Shipping and Seaman’s Act, 1903. The Magistrate dismissed the information then, on tho grounds that the steamship was a dredge hired by the Oamaru Harbor Board from the Timaru Harbor Board,; and her sole business was dredging. She did not cary freight or cargo. _and was not a ship engaged ill the Home or intercolonial trade, nor a trading ship, unless the fact of her proceeding to Oamaru without freight or passengers constituted her such. Y'esterday the appeal of the Collector of Customs was heard. The sections in the Act upon which argument mainly turned wore section 4 (“Home-trade ship means any ship employed in trading or going between any port or places m New Zealand”), and section 54 (which refers to the complement of crew necesary for ships engaged in Hom e or Intercolonial trade). After bearing argument, his Honor reserved judgment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2117, 27 June 1907, Page 4
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221A SHIPPING CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2117, 27 June 1907, Page 4
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