DOCTORS ON SHIPS
SEQUEL TO DEATH ON. TRANSTASMAN TRIP .MEDICAL MAN NOW ATTACHED TO MAUNGANUI ALLEGED SEQUEL TO LEGAL THREATS T.P.A. by Elec. Tel, Cow right.) SYDNEY. Nov. 19. Nearly a year ago, Air Eitzsimsons n sited the Premier, Air La'ig, iu the Assembly, whether it was a fact that a man who became dl on a. mad steamer on route trom New Zealand to Sydney died because no surgeon was aboard to porlorm an immediate operation. The Premier replied that as the ship was registered in New Zealand the .matter ol' making compulsory for mail steamers to carry doctors rested with the Dominion authorities, to whom ho would make the necessary representations. A letter has now been received from the Prime Alinister’s Department stating that action had been taken bv the Minister lor Transport with a view to instituting proceedings against the Union Steam Ship U(T. to test the application of see--I,'on led of the Navigation Act to New Zealand to registered slops trading between the Dominion and Australia. „ , , Because of the action referred to, ihe Union Steam Ship Co., under protest, lias placed a medical ‘officer on board the Alauiiganui. In the event of a passenger ship leaving lot New Zealand without a doctor legal proceedings, it is stated, will be taken immediately.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11492, 20 November 1931, Page 3
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