THE TUG DUCO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10001, 23 March 1910, Page 5

THE TUG DUCO.

CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION. SETTLED OUT OP COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 22.

Two of the claims for compensation brought in the Supreme Court by relatives of members of the crew af the steam trawler Duco, which foundered between Wellington and the Chatham Islands, have been settled out of court, the owners of the vessel, the Wellington Harbour Ferries, Ltd., having agreed to pay a certain sum. To-day a special Jury had been summoned for the hearing of the claim brought by Ellen Lang Tucker Waddilove and William Wardrop Waddilove, executor respectively of William Waddilove, who was chief officer of the Duco when she was lost, the amount of the claim being £1.500. It is not stated how much the Ferry Company agreed to pay, the company had admitted liability under the Workers' Compensation Act, and the maximum amounts payable under this Act are £SOO. Another claim which was to have been investigated by a special jury, and which has also been settled in a similar way is that of Elizabeth Jane Menard, widow of Alexander Laird Menard, chief engineer of the Duco, the claim in this case was also for £1,500. There is. at least one other claim against the Company still to be dealt with.