FLIRTING ON A LINER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 246, 17 October 1922, Page 4

FLIRTING ON A LINER.

; CLKRGYMAK'g CHARGES. I (From Our Own Correspondent.) i SVDXEY, October la. I So s4*riritis "wove the charges made by i » clergyman who iras on board the Commonwealth liner Moreton Ray on her recent voyage In Australia, that the manappinpiit orderpil an inquiry, and an official report has been issued Urn- of the charges wfls that the stewards were too husy ruddling girls on the dock to attend t<. ihrir duties. The clergyman asserted, iimonjr other things, : that not more than sin passengers were ' provided with \ator with which to wash |in their cahins: that iift-r a few day« I pvpryhody on hoard had a partner, and that there »m much flirtin": that girlj had a habit of ninniiio int" the officers' Valpine. an.! on nne occasion his (th* I i lerjr.vinan'-) J art nor i:: a frame had J disappeared, an,l he found her in th*> 'officers cabin too full of giujrer beer to I play ajiain: that in the tropics a pas«.«en- ! changfvl into his pyjama- on the deik iin front of several women. ] The report on these charges either I mininu£t>£ or entireh dUi-mints lliem. and further #u,a>,'ent« lhat the complainant ■ «a.< not i|iiite as f-opular he might ' have lieen with the shi|>V company. One jof the .«hip"s officers said Hint the parson was ostracised by Oil per cent of' those aboard. He js nllpgrd to have made ohjectiona!.].- remarks a»iiin>t certain i ufficem diiiine th,- Snndny and ;to have -aid tliinjis i-alcnlatcd to cause disfatisfai'tiun unioiij; th< crew and i officers. The chargr.- ol 1.-i\ i-omlnct as between tiie sexes wen- iml sii-lamed, and it is stated (hat the p.vjani.i man's <-asy-<roing methods were -toppei! a? -.m.ii as reported.