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Conferences had failed to produce agreement.

The Chairman had

suggested however, that the Association would be well advised to

restrict their complaint in the first instance at any rate,

to one Conference.

6.

Hudson Bay Marine Insurance Rates. (vide paragraph 8

of Minutes of 168th Meeting).

The Chairman read a letter which he had received from

the High Commissioner for Canada relative to the Committee's

Third Report on Hudson Bay Marine Insurance Rates, in which the

High Commissioner indicated that the Department of Marine at

Ottawa considered that August 10th should not be regarded as a

permanently fixed date for vessels passing Cape Chidley inwards,

but that the date should be movable, depending on the actual

navigation conditions in Hudson Strait and Bay, as revealed

by the ice and weather reports from the wireless stations in the

neighbourhood and the Government patrol steamers.

In the course of the discussion on the letter the

Chairman suggested that it would be better not to re-open the

matter as regards the present season unless there were some

ships actually involved, particularly as it would be difficult

to get the matter considered by the Joint Hull Committee at

snort notice. Mr. MacLeod replied that he was unaware of

any particular ships which would be affected, but he thought

it might be an advantage if the underwriters were made aware

of the proposal which might be useful in subsequent years.

It was finally agreed that the Chairman should

communicate with the Chairman of the Joint Hull Committee asking

him to consider the nature of the information which the Joint

Hull Committee would like to have with a view to enabling them to

fix the date for the opening of the season.

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