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benefit of the statutory release by the seamen under that 

 section. 



Subsection 4. Having regard as to what has been 

 stated in respect to subsection I, this subsection must be 

 very carefully applied. 



Subsection 5 provides that all questions of wages raised 

 before the superintendent between owners and seamen 

 shall, if the amount does not exceed 5, be adjudicated upon 

 by such superintendent, whose decision shall be final. It 

 is not desirable that summary jurisdiction, 'in which ques- 

 tions of fact and law are contained, should be left to be 

 determined by a superintendent of fisheries or marine 

 without any possibility of appeal from their decision. 

 These questions of law, therefore, should be left to the deci- 

 sion of the magistrates, who are assisted by their clerk. 



I. This clause meets a want which has not yet been 

 discovered in the fishing industry. 



K. The question again arises as to what is meant by a 

 particular class or classes of fishing vessels ; for, as has been 

 before stated, a person competent to (surface) navigate one 

 fishing vessel as master is competent to (surface) navigate 

 any other fishing vessel ; and if he has the requisite know- 

 ledge of the fishing grounds, the mode of fishing, and the 

 habits of the fish, which he would obtain when serving in a 

 subordinate capacity to that of master, there seems to be 

 no reason why he should not be qualified to act as master of 

 any fishing vessel whatsoever. Just for a' moment to call 

 attention to the difference in the various classes of fishing, 

 it may be stated that a boy who had served his apprentice- 

 ship on board a liner would be of very little use to a 

 trawler or drifter, and vice versa. There would be no more 

 justification in treating the various classes of fishing as all 

 one than there would be in classing a saddler as a shoe- 



