MEDICAL OFFICERS
FEDERAL PROVISION
INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE
UNION CO. AFFECTED
Uuitea Pnjss Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 19th November, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Nearly a year ago Mr. Fitzsimons asked the Premier, Mr. Lang, in the Legislative Assembly whether it was a fact that a man who became ill on a mail steamer en route from New Zealand to Sydney died because there was no surgeon aboard to perform an immediate operation. The Premier replied that as the ship was registered in New Zealand the matter of making it compulsory for mail steamers to carry doctors rested with the Commonwealth authorities, to whom he would make the necessary representations. A letter has now been received from the Prime Ministers-Departm-ent, slating that action had been taken by the Minister of Transport with a view to instituting proceedings against the Union Steam Ship Company to test the application of Section 133 of the Navigation Act to New Zealand-registered ships trading between the Dominion and Australia. Because of the action referred to, the Union Steam Ship Company, under protest, has placed a medical officer on board the Maunganui. In event of a passenger ship leaving for New Zealand without a doctor, legal proceedings, it is stated, will be taken immediately. ____»
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 13
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