EMIGRANT SHIPS.
9 ALLEGED OVERCROWDING. By releeraph—Pres3 Association—OopjriEhJ (Rec, January 3, 9.20 p.m.) London, January 3. A traveller by an Australian liner writes to "The Times" stating that the Board of Trade licensed the vessel to carry 580, whereas she actually carried 85 first-class, 810 steerage, and a crew of 200. At the utmost the boat's capacity was 710. The writer states that all the emigrant ships are similarly over-crowded since assisted passages were started.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1328, 4 January 1912, Page 5
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75EMIGRANT SHIPS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1328, 4 January 1912, Page 5
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