Huddart-Parker and Company Proprietary (Limited) v Nixon - (1910) 29 NZLR 657

Shipping and Seamen Act — Company registered in Victoria — Steamship engaged in New Zealand Coastal Trade — Whether subject to New Zealand Statute regulating Seamen's Wages — Repugnancy of Statute to Imperial Statute — Validity pro tanto — "Merchant Shipping Act, 1894" (57 & 58 Vict, c 60), ss 166, 736 — "Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908," ss 14, 75 — "Constitution Act" (15 & 16 Vict, c 72), s 53 — "Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865" (28 & 29 Vict, c 63), ss 2, 3.