“For Those In Peril On
p. 57 · Read in the full issue
The Sea”
THE draft copy of the Solomon Islands * new shipping regulations has gone to the printers, writes a 8.5.1. resident.
There is nothing very drastic about them, except that the amount of gear required in the form of lifebuoys, life
jackets, lifecrafts, lifeboats, lifelines, extra pumps, fire extinguishers, boxes of sand (very handy for the ship’s cat), and other impedimenta will not leave much room for anything else on board.
After providing for the few above items, we are to pay examination fees, for local master’s licence closely followed by survey fees, trial runs (quite costly, at 20/- per dozen bottles), etc. Then, on entering port, we have light dues (presumably, I hope, when visible), specified gangways, nets, lights, etc.
After that mouthful, I should thin.c one is allowed to do anything one like.; provided it does not meet with the dis approval of the harbourmaster or police, such as throwing overboard tapa can;,, crown corks, razor blades, cat’s sand, official examiners and other debris that shallow to allow H.M.B. Tulagi to leave the port.
Of course, you must provide specified decklines, loadlines and every other lines—except hardlines for the poor old owner.