A REJECTED CLAIM.
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHUnCH. last niph't
A case >ln which a passenger who naa ; been disappointed m not g'Ctiin.. uh-J berth he required, was heard m Jhcj Magistrate's Court to-day. when Oeorgo Louis Ostler proceeded airainst the Union (.'o. ioi* ..£ll. 8s 9d. Counsel said that platntij'f bou&ht. . three jit urn saloon tickets from Lyttelton io m; vveni io Auckland, and because lie wasl away lonsor .*han he anliripalea ni- iiainj an e\(r.*i r>s to have his licket extended. ' He also paid a similar -sum lor a deck cabin an<J was claiming for halt cost of the ticket, with £.10 damag-es for bieacn dl contract m tliat- the company had not given him special saloon berth accommodation. lWaintiff.. m his evidence, said that instead of a deck cabin he .hail to accept, accommodation, m the hold. Tlie defence contended that, if plaintiff was not- .satisfied with the accommodation he was given, he shouln have gone to .the proper authorities. Had lie done tliis he would have been given his choice of six deck cabins, ire was* given a saloon berth, although it was what was known as an -'omnibus cabin.'* The claim was laid under sec-' tion mof tho Shipping and Seamen Act, but as it was not lodged witnin me specified time, plaintiff was oui. of Court Plaintiff was non-suited on the ground that the claim had been made beyond the time allowed by Act.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15242, 15 June 1920, Page 2
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239A REJECTED CLAIM. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15242, 15 June 1920, Page 2
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