SYDNEY HARBOUR TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19154, 10 November 1927, Page 11

SYDNEY HARBOUR TRAGEDY.

INQUEST ON VICTIMS OPENS. (bt cable—pbess associatioit—coptbwht.) (austbauax and k.z.' cable association.) (Received November 9th, 10.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 9. The inquest on the victims of the ferry disaster was commenced, and has been adjourned till Tuesday next, in order to allow the police to make further enquiries and perhaps recover more bodies. FEDERAL ENQUIRY OPENS. (AUSTRALIA* ANtt X.B. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received Novembor 9th, 11.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 9. The combined State and Federal enquiry into the ferry disaster : opened before Mr Justice Campbell, but was adjourned until Wednesday next without hearing evidence to allow counsel for the different interested parties to prepare their cases. At the inquest on the ferry disaster, Dr. Palmer, Government Medical Officer, gave evidence to the effect that in his opinion drowning was the canse of almost every death. Ex-Detective Comyn, who was a passenger on another ferry, from which he witnessed the accident, gave evidence that when he first sighted the Greycliffe she was about four lengths ahead of the Tahiti and appeared to be bearing in towards the larger ship. The Greycliffe appeared to be drawn in towards the Tahiti, although the ferry had apparently not altered her course. He then heard one short blast from the Tahiti and the latter appeared to push the Greycliffe over, striking her twice, forward and amidships.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ENQUIRY.

(AUSTRALIAN AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, November 9,

The Attorney-General, Mr F. S. Boyce, announced that as the result of co-operation between the State and Federal Governments, Mr Justice Campbell, of the Supreme Court, has been appointed to preside over the enquiry into the Tahiti-Greycliffe collision, opening to-day. It has been arranged that the chief and second officers of the Tahiti will return from Wellington by the Maunganiu, arriving on Tuesday.