PENGUIN WRECK CASE.
VERDICT FOR UNION COMPANY.
[Pint Piticss Association.! WELLINGTON, Nov. 2
Judgment AA'as given by Dr. McArthur, S.M., to-day in connection with three claims for 'luggage lost in the wreck of the Penguin. In deciding in. favor of the Union Company, the Magistrate held that the meaning} of section 293 of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act was that if a shipowner by himself or his agents used due diligence to make a ship seaworthy when sue starred, he should not be liable for what happened afterwards, when the ship Avas at sea and he had no more control over her.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2649, 3 November 1909, Page 5
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102PENGUIN WRECK CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2649, 3 November 1909, Page 5
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