MEDICAL AID AT SEA
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INTERCOLONIAL MAIL STEAMERS TO CARRY . DOCTORS AUSTRALIAN DECISION
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SYDNEY, Thursday. Nearly a year ago Mr. Fitzsimmons asked the premier, Mr. J. T. Lang in the Legislative Assembly whether it was a fact that a man who became ill on a mail steamer while en route from New Zealand to Sydney, died because no surgeon was aboard to perform an immediate operation. The Premier replied that as the ship was registered in New Zealand the matter of making it compulsory for mail steamers to carry doctors rested with the Commonwealth authorities td whom he would make the necessary representations. A letter has now been received from the Prime Minister's department stating that action had been taken by the Minister for Transport . | with a view to instituting proceedi ings agaipst the Union Steamship i Company to test the application of Section 133 of the Navigation Act to t : New Zealand-registered ships trading between the Dominion and Australia. Because of the action referred to the Union Steamship Company, under protest, has placed a medical officer on board the Maunganui. In the event of a passenger ship leaving for New Zealand without a doctor legal proceedings, it is stated, will be taken immediately.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 76, 20 November 1931, Page 5
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