CARRIED TOO MANY PASSENGERS
_U . '♦■ (lV TELEOttAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, sth March.' The only means of communication twenty-five white people of Nine Island liaVe with the outside world is by means of the quarterly visits paid by the ketch Kerera from Auckland, fourteen hundred miles away. On 'her last trip twelve people urgently wanted a passage, and the captain accommodated them. He had ample berths and life-saving equipment, but the survey ticket only licenses him to carry nine passengers. Therefore, he was prosecuted by the Marine Department to-day, and^ was fined £20 and costs.- The Magistrate said the case was not one for a punitive fine, but such breaches of the law must be made unprofitable.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 55, 6 March 1915, Page 4
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116CARRIED TOO MANY PASSENGERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 55, 6 March 1915, Page 4
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