Commonwealth v Huon Channel and Peninsula Steamship Company Limited [1918] HCA 18

OF AUSTRALIA. 385

to vary the prescribed mode of advertisement, and not to H. ©. or A. se altogether with advertisement prior to the presentation of a ee as required by sec. 84 pee

v. Forean.

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Petition dismissed without costs.

citors for the petitioner, Sly d& Russell, for Poole, Johnstone cks, Adelaide.

icitor for the caveator, E. H. Newman, for Barwell, Kelly & Adelaide.

{HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.)

COMMONWEALTH AND ANOTHER. Prarytirrs;

AGAINST

[HE HUON CHANNEL AND PENINSULA) pal 'TEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED | Acer weet ag

ight dues—* Sea-going ship" —' Port" —Voyage to or from a port— 44 ©. oy A. p which "passes a lighthouse '—Lighthouses Act 1911-1915 (No. 14 of 191s. 911—No. 17 of 1915), sec. 13—Commonwealth Light Dues Regulations 15

y Rules 1915, No. 96), regs. 2, 3. Honarr,

: ; P 4 Rtas Feb. 21, 22. See. 13 of the Lighthouses Act 1911-1915 provides that "(1) Light dues,

in accordance with the prescribed rates or scales, shall be levied and shall )yrpoorNe, payable with respect to the voyages made by ships or vessels... . . March 14,15, ) The regulations may prescribe the rates or scales of light dues to be pay- a.

able by ships or vessels and all matters necessary or convenient to be pre-

cribed to carry this section into effect."

Barton J.

Reg. 2 of the Commonwealth Light Dues' Regulations 1915 defines "sea- ng ship" as including "every ship which in the course of its voyage to or /an Australian port passes one or more lighthouses or marine marks

H. ©. or A.

1918. Sw Tue Com- MONWEALTH v. Hvon CHANNEL AND

Co. Lrp.

and William John Bain, Collector of Customs for Tasmania, against the Huon Channel and Peninsula Steamship Co. Ltd. to recover the sum of £1 2s. for light dues alleged to be payable in respect of the steamship Ronnie belonging to the defendants under the Common- — wealth Light Dues Regulations 1915.