OVERSEA PRIZE DISPOSAL COMMITTEE.
Minutes of Meetings and Appendices, 1916.
I. MINUTES.
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THE NINETY-THIRD MEETING of the Committee was held at the Colonial Office at 3.15 p.m. on 3rd January, 1916.
I. MINUTES
II. APPENDICES:-
A. (1) Sixth Interim Report (23rd August, 1916)
(2) Admiralty Coasting Trade Office Report for 1916
B. (1) Letter from Millars' Timber and Trading Company to the Federal Steam Navigation Company; agreements for the employment of
Apolda" (1st March, 1916)
the Hamm
(2) Ditto
(8) Ditto
and
Ditto
Ditto
(17th March, 1916)
(24th October, 1916)
C. (1) Statement of Accounts to 31st March, 1918 ...
(2) Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1916.
D. (1) Letter from Treasury, 13th January, 1910, appointing an Accounting Officer, and showing limite within which powers are delegated to the Committee to deal with losses, etc.
(2) Letter from Treasury, 19th January, 1918, conveying authority to make arrangements for requisitioning any vessel awaiting adjudica- tion by the Prize Court in the United Kingdom, and for the com- mercial employment of any ship seized by His Majesty's forces on the high seas which it may be decided to bring to the United Kingdom for adjudication
(8) Letter from Treasury referring certain questions to the Committee
(10th July, 1916)
(4) Letter from Treasury agreeing that Committee should assist the Board of Trade in drawing up an agreement with parties interested in the cargoes of the Damao and Pangim (8th December, 1916)
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Present:
VICE-ADMIRAL SIR E. J. W. SLADE, K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O. (Chairman). MR. W. J. EVANS, Admiralty.
MR. G. L. BARSTOW, C.B., Treasury.
Mr. L. D. WAKELY, India Office.
MR. C. TENNYSON, C.M.G., acted as Secretary in the absence of
Mr. Wiseman.
The minutes of the Ninety-second Meeting were confirmed.
The Secretary was instructed to make arrangements for the binding of the minutes up to the end of the year 1915.
3. Steamships "Hocking" and Hamborn."-The Committee confirmed the charter of these vessels to the Hudson Bay Company.
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4. 3.8. Genesee," -The Committee confirmed the charter of this vessel to Mr. George Bedforth, of the Aspley Dye Works Company, Huddersfield, for the carriage of logwood from St. Lucia, Belize, and Jamaica to Hull or Immingham.
5. 8.3. "Grahamland."-The Committee considered a letter which had been received from the Admiralty relative to the proposal to use this vessel for the conveyance of logwood from the West Indies on her return from British Columbia. It was decided that a copy of the Admiralty's letter should be sent to the Board of Trade.
With regard to the Port and Transit Executive Committee, referred to in the Admiralty's letter, the Secretary was instructed to write to that Committee informing them that the Oversea Prize Disposal Committee proposed in future to consult them whenever they had a vessel available for the carriage of cargo.
6. S.D. Chile." Mr. Evans undertook to inquire as to the terms on which the tugs which had been employed in connexion with the attempts to salve this vessel had been requisitioned.
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8.8. “Marina.”—Having regard to the suggestion that this ship might be employed by the Government of Nigeria as a collier, the Committee decided that the charter to Messrs. Elder Dempster and Company, Limited, which was expiring
on 18th January, should not be renewed beyond the 18th April.
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8. 8.0. Carl." The Committee considered a letter received from Mr. Starkey with regard to the valuation of the stores on this vessel.
It was decided that a detailed valuation of the stores should be made for the settlement of the liabilities under the charter party.
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9. Steamships "Hamm and "Apolda."-The Committee considered the application which had been put forward by the Millar Timber and Trading Com- pany, on behalf of the Union of South Africa, for the use of these vessels for a further three voyages at least, for the carriage of sleepers from Australia to South Africa.
The Committee had no objection in principle to the extension of these charters, provided that the ships were at the risk of the Union Government during the extra voyages. The Secretary was instructed to ascertain the terms on which the sleepers had been purchased by the Union Government, and to report as to the proposed conditions of the new charter party.
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