GREYCLIFFE ENQUIRY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19201, 6 January 1928, Page 7

GREYCLIFFE ENQUIRY.

POSITION OF THE PILOT,

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COUNSEL'S STRONG SPEECH

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SYDNEY, January 5.

At the enquiry into the collision between the Tahiti and the Greveliffe, Mr Evans, counsel for the pilot, Captain Carson, in his address to the Court, said that because tlie rules of navigation were being broken by the Sydney ferries every day. the public were exposed to serious risks.

Mr Evans strongly condemned the construction of the ferry boats, declaring it was impossible for captains to maintain a proper look-out.

lie added that during the enquiry Captain Carson's reputation had been grossly defamed. The case had been overloaded with prejudice from the start, everybody assuming that the speed of the Tahiti was excessive. "So much so," he declared, "that the propaganda that lias been disseminated is extraordinarily difficult to counteract. In fact, it has reached throughout the world. It is ridiculous to suppose that Captain Carson, aided and abetted by Captain Aklwell, would be guilty of deliberately running down a ship." The fact was, declared Mr Evans, that the ferry changed its course, and that was supported by all tho exact evidence that had been given in the case. It was the defective equipment of the Grcycliffe that was at fault.