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DAMAGE TO DOCK.

SHIPOWNERS LIABILITY TESTED IN COURT.

In the House of Lords on Nov.

SECTION.

1 OUT OF 62.

HOW AMERICA IS BEING LEFT BEHIND.

For every ship being built in the 18, the hearing concluded of the United States, Great Britain is appeal of the Great Western Rail-building 35, Germany 12, Italy 3, way Co. which arose out of their Japan 6 and France 2. The chair nction against the owners of the man of the Shipping Boards says steamship Mostyn," of Newport, that the American merchant marina Mon.. to recover £226 43. 6d. in ros- le close to obsolete and soon we peet of damage done to works con- shall be dependent on foreign trans- nected with the Swangen Harbour portation. Dock of which the appellants are the undertakers. The President of the Admiralty Division, whose Judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeal, held that there was no negligence on board the "Mestyn," and that where negligence was die proved Section 74 of the Harbours, Docks, and Piera Clauses Act, 1847, did not confer any new right of action.

So far behind in the race is the United States that the "London Times's" summary of Lloyd's report for the last quarter does not find it necessary even to mention this country. Shipbuilding in the Unit- ed States does not even get into the also-ran class.

PILOT WITNESSES.

FEES FOR ATTENDANCE AT COURT.

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The amount of allowance payable to pilots in respect of their attend- ance at court as witnesses has been. the subject of argument before | Lord Murray in the Court of Soe-

sion at Edinburgh.

On February 24 last Lord Mur ray pronounced judgment in cross actions between Chr. Salvesen and Company, 20, Bernard Street, Leith, owners of the steamship "Aintree," of Liverpool, and the General Steam Navigation Company., Ltd., 15. Trinity Square, London owners of the steamship "Stork," of London. Tho.actions arose out of a collision between the Thames. The "Aintree" claimed steamers in the

£600 as damages, and the "Stork") for payment of £455

Lord Murray found the steamers! equally, to blame,-

The situation is pecullar. If the American Flag is being driven from interim report from the Auditor of

A question has now arisen on anj the oceans it is not because Ameri- Court relating to the allowancea Mr. Raeburn, K.C., concluding cans do not make good sailors. properly chargeable in respect of his case for the appellants, sub- The Yankee clipper ship once was the attendance of three river pilots, mitted the following authorities: queen of the waves and Amerlean witnesses for the "Aintree." The The Postmaster General v. Beck seamen were proud to be second witnesses in question were the pilot (1924, 2 K.B., p. 312); the British to none. Nor is it because Ameri- in charge of the steamer, and two American Tobacco Co. v.

Jones can business men are asleep at the other pilots who were respectively (42 TLK. p. 236); also the case switch. They have plenty of en-in charge of and a chance passen- of Det Forende v. Barry Railway terprise and plenty of capital be-ger on the bridge of Co., which counsel said was only hind them. They go vigorously which happened to be passing up the steamer reported in Lloyd's List law re-into industry that offers profit. river at or about the time of the ports (Vol. I., p. 658); counsel con- Money flows generously into any collision. They were all, especial- fended that assuming that no negli-channel that promises dividends. iy the first-named, important. wit- gence was proved their Lordships and reasonable safety. There is nesses. were not bound by the decision of enough and to spare, for hundreds Allowance to witnesses, Lord the River Wear Commissioners' of millions are exported annually Murray said in dealing with the case. The balance of opinion ns for investment in foreign securities question, were now regulated by the expressed in that case was In and private business.

Codifying Act of Sederunt (K. IV. favour of the proposition that Yet American business men and Ch. 5, Secs. 3 (1) and 3 (2). where a ship was still under con- American capital balk at American Under the Act of Sederunt the fees trol, or should be still under con- shipping. The reasons are not far and allowances in respect of vari- trol, no proof of negligence was to seek. Ships built in American ous clasacs of witnesses were now necessary. Their Lordships were yards with high-priced labour and graded in a more or less general free to consider the true construc- sailed by seamen on a high wage why, and witnesses other than home tion of Section 74 of the Act, aid- scale and maintenance must com- witnesses received travelling ed by Sections 75 and 76, apart al- pete in foreign service, with ships charges. The terms of the Act of together from what was decided in built abroad with cheap labour and Sederunt had been construed by the the River Wear Commissioners' sailed by low wage scale foreign court not as laying down rigid and case; and upon the true construc- sailors. Freight takes the cheapest

peremptory directions, but በ8 tion the words of the section were route.

affording general guidance, The plain. He asked their Lordships

stood.

CANADA'S SHIPPING,

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If the American merchant marine to interpret the words as they is to prosper, some way must be found to balance the handicap on Mr. Langton, K.C., replying for our shipping.-"San Francisco the respondents, submitted that Chronicle." Section 74 of the Act of 1847 must be read as applying only to cases where damage was done by negli gant, or wrongful act on the part of those navigating the ship. He said that all the pieces. In this puzzle were now on the board. Mr. Raeburn for the appellants had set the pieces in his own way, and it only

remained for him (Mr. Lungton) to assemble the pieces to suit his own argument. They came back to the fact that the Act was not clear. It might be necessary for their Lordships to consider exactly what was meant by "Act of God."

Judgment was reserved.

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Mr. Guy Tombs (Guy Tombs, Ltd., Montreal, the largest foreign forwarding house in Canada) con- tributes an article on the shipping services of the Dominion to a 40- page Canadian Supplement of "The Financial Times.

The shipping services of Canada, he says, are of the first importance to the Empire, the majority of the vessels are built in the United Kingdom, and the principal trade

cases

of witnesses in maritime cases, especially those known as enfaring witnesses, was a familiar illustration of exceptional cases. But seafaring witnesses did not, in his Lordship's opinion, constitute the only exception..

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The pilots in question by the nor- mal course of their employment might be at sea for some days at a time. They might perhaps be fair ly enough regarded as seafaring witnesses, but were plainly in somewhat different position from the master of, say, an Eastern or Australian liner. In the argument before his Lordship the test pro- posed was whether these witnesses we.e or were not to be regarded as seafaring witnesses. "Aintree" maintained the allowance If so, the sanctioned in certain previous cases should be treated as stadards, and applied more or less automatically; is with the British Isles and the if not, the "Stork" argued, no al overseas Dominions. Montreal,lowance at all should be sanctioned. though open to navigation for only In his Lordship's opinion, neither AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT seven months in the year, is the of these extreme views afforded the greatest grain port in the world true test: Tha true test in any and the second most important har- given case was to be found in the bour in North America. The win- answer to these questions-(1) was ter trade of Montreal, Quebec, and the case in hand exceptional in the. other St. Lawrence ports goes to sense referred to? and, if so, what Halifax and St. John--the former was the amount of the allowances one of the largest, and best har- reasonably chargeable as against an bours of North America. On the opponent? He thought both of Pacific coast the rise and progress these questions fell to be referred, at Vancouver has been phenomenal. primarily at least, to the discretion Prince Rupert (British Columbia), of the auditor, who had the means; oer Japan than any other American as to the facts. With this direction Is one or two days' steaming near- of informing and satisfying himself port. The traffic on the Great his Lordship would accordingly re- Lakes exceeds that of any other mit the accounts back to the audi- area of the globe.

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