GREYCLIFFE INQUEST
Coroner's Criticism Of Union
Company.
TAHITI'S DEPARTURE.
(Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Greycliffe inquest continues. The coroner adversely criticised the Union Steamship Company for allowing the Tahiti to proceed to sea so soon after the collision. Mr. Hughes, the manager, said that the company was subject to a penalty if the Tahiti was late in leaving New Zealand with the American mails. The Tahiti was not damaged and nothing further in the way of rescue work could be done, She had 200 passengers aboard and there was nothing to prevent her from proceeding on her voyage. The coroner said that there were maiiy people on board the Tahiti, who might have given material evidence. While the police were busily occupied saving lives and recovering bodies the Tahiti left the harbour without giving the police a reasonable chance of inter- , viewing those who might have proved material witnesses in tho interests of justice.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 9
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