WRECK OF THE TAHITI.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 5 September 1930, Page 18

WRECK OF THE TAHITI.

PENYBRYN'S SERVICES. SEAFARERS' APPRECIATION. [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, September -L The following letter was sent to Captain Salvesen, master of the Penybryn, by Captain F. A. Macindoe, secretary of the Merchant Service Guild. "Although in the papers your vessel docs not loom very much in the limelight with regard to the Tahiti disaster we as a body of seafaring men realise the part yon played ni going to the rescue of those on the lahiti, especially when you barely had ■sufficient coal to take you back to Auck.la"l\Jy Committee of Management havo instructed me to write to you expressing our appreciation for tlio prompt decision lnade in going back in answer to the S.O.S. call from the Tahiti, and although your services wero not used, it was a great comfort to those on board the Tahiti to know that help was at hand should it be required. The position when you arrived was so serious that one almost dreads to think what might havo happened had you not been on the scene when you were and any more of the bulkheads had carried away. "Captain Toten is a, member of this Guild, and on his behalf and the Committee of Management please accept our very sincere appreciation for the services which you rendered in standing by." Captain Salvesen'a reply is as follows : "Please allow me to express my vol? best thanks for the great honour you bestow upon mo with your letter. J. also beg you to convey this thanks to the members of your esteemed Guild. I can hardly - say how pleased 1 am over the appreciation from gentlemen belonging to my own profession. I am suro that you will understand that when the Penybryn could do no more it was not on account of lack of will, but because circumstances did not permit me to do more."

Preliminary Enquiry. A. preliminary Departmental enquiry into the sinking of the Tahiti wa.-, held this afternoon, before th« Nautical Advisor to tho Marine Department. Tin! nautical enquiry which is being held locally is to commence next Tuesday, but the hour :it which the proceedings will open lias not yet been decided. TEN BAGS OF LETTERS LOST. (musa ASSOCIATION TXI.IECIKAM.) WELLINGTON, September 1. Tho Post and Telegraph Department report that 273 bags of mail, equivalent to twenty-seven tons in measurement, were transferred to tho Ventura from the Tahiti. The number of letter bags actually lost was ten. No bags of registered mail were lost. SEAMEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. WELLINGTON, September 4. In view of the numW of vessels on New Zealand articles at present laid up, Mr T. Walsh, president of the Federated Seamen's Union, says that tho crew of the Tahiti have been thrown out of employment at a very unfortunate time and their prospects of finding positions are far from promising.