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ON EMIGRANT VESSELS A TRAVELLERS COMPLAINT. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) LONDON, January 3. A traveller by an Australian liner writes to The Times, stating that the Board of Trade licensed the vessel by which, he travelled to carry 580 passengers, wiulle it actually'curried 87 first-class passengers, 810 steerage passengers, and a orew of 200, and the boat's- utmost capacity was- 740. He states that all' emigrant shipshave been similarly over-crowded since assisted passages were instituted.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 5
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87OVER-CROWDING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 5
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