PASSENGERS AT SEA.
COMPULSORY INSURANCE. SHIPOWNERS’ LIABILITY. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16. At the opening meeting of thg conference of the ■ International Maritime Committee at Amsterdam, Sir Norman Hill, speaking on the compulsory insurance of passengers, said that the World Economic Conference had proclaimed the urgent need of greater liberty in international trade, at the root of Avhich was overseas transport. The aim of the International Maritime Committee, said Sir Norman, was to facilitate overseas transport by placing the laws of all countries on a just and uniform basis. He reviewed the laws ot the various nations, showing the Avide divergencies of the liability of the shipowner to the passenoer which made it impossible to define the rights of the passengers on international voyages, though all nations placed a limit on the total liability of the shipowner in respect to casualties not due to his misconduct.
The protection now given Avas unsatisfactory to all classes of passen-o-ers It Avas necessary, Sir Norman Hill said, to place the rights of passengers oil a just and equal inteinational basis.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1927, Page 7
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