LOST LUGGAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 12 June 1914, Page 5

LOST LUGGAGE.

INABILITY BY SHIPPING CO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court, Allen Walter Woodman, of Weraroa, and his wife, Martha Hannah Woodman, claimed from the Shaw, Savill and Albion Steamship Company two sums of £lO, as the value of the contents of a trunk alleged to have been delivered to the company at Wellington for conveyance to Napier, and lost. The plaintiff and his wife were third-class passengers from London to New Zealand by the s.s. Tainui, an emigrant ship, and the agreement under which plaintiffs made their claim was set out in the third-class passengers' contract ticket.

On the front of the ticket, said his Worship, the defendant' company agreed to provide plaintiff and' his wife with third-class passages to and land them at Wellington. Upon the back of the ticket, the defendant company agreed to forward at their own expense the plaintiff and his wife, with 13 cubic feet of luggage, from Wellington te Napier on arrival at Wellington. Plaintiff missed the steamer connection with Napier, but the luggage was sent on, and the trunk was subsequently found to be missing. Judgment was given for plaintiffs for £lO eaeh. and costs.