DISAPPOINTED PASSENSER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2500, 15 June 1920, Page 5

DISAPPOINTED PASSENSER.

SUES UNION COM FAN N fcilectric Teiegraph- Press Associatio Christ..liiireh , I.a ■ t N igltt. A case m which a. passenger had been ills appoi 11 lei 1 in lfot gelling the berth, be require,| was liearii in tlie Magistrates Court to-day, when George Lewis Ostler proceeded against lhe Union St eamsbi]) Company lor hi I 's 'jd. C’ouM sc 1 said plailitill bought three teturn saloon tiekot.s front Lyttelton to Wellington. H*’ went to Auckland. Beeaiise be was away longer than a 111 icipa ted . lie paid an extra tivo shillings to bate Ills 1 ieket extended. lie also paid a similar sum for a deck cabin, and was claiming tor halt tile cost, ol the ticket, with LlO damages tor broach ol cont it. in t hat t lie t 'ompany bad not. iveii him special salmi,i Isn't liing aeroinmoda lion. 1 lie plailitill. m bis evidence, said that, instead ol a deck cabin be bad to accept, iiceoinmndat inn oi tlie bold. The defence contended, that, if plaintiff was not satisfied with the accommodation lie was given, he should have gone to tlie proper authorities. Had be done this, he would have boon given the , hoiee ol sis dock cabins. He was given a, saloon berth, although it was in what was known a.s an omnibus cabin. Tin'claim was laid under Section 183 of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act, but , as it was not. lodged within the specified time, plaintiff was out of court. The plaintiff was non-miited, on the ground that, the claim had been made beyond the tune allowed, by the Act.