DISCOMFORT AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 22, 21 October 1907, Page 10

DISCOMFORT AT SEA.

COMPLAINT BY PASSENGERS. A series of complaints, signed by a number of second-class passengers by the Wimniera on the last trip from Sydney, have been handed to us for publication, after several of the complainants had interviewed tho Secretary for Marine, who is forwarding a copy of the allegations made to the Minister for Marine. 1 Tho complaints are as follow;— 3 "Hnddnrt, Parker's s.s. Wimmcra. '■ ." First. —Number of passengers in excess of 3 the ship's capacity (second saloon), being j licensed by. the Board of Trade to carry 9li, r carrying at present 121, 25 in excess. ," Second.—Lack of proper sanitary arrange- ■' ments; there being no nnnal available for the 6 men, and-only three w.c.'s, and one of these 5 is put of order, and others badly flushed. . i " Third. —Itf is impossible to obtain an early 1 bath owing to the fact that this room is used ) as a sleeping compartment by two of the staff, r and also a box-rboni for passengers' luggage. t i " Fourth.—Owing to the cabins ■ being all taken, thirty passengers are compelled to sleep ' in the saloon, on the tables, and deck, this saloon being tho only sitting accommodation 1 for ladies. It is most disgusting for all pas- " songers to partake of their meals in this comi partment, in which thirty men have been sleop- ; ing, of them being sick. , " Fifth.—lmmediately abaft the saloon are I placed the following:—<l) Stables, occupied by three horses; (2) attached to the door of the • saloon , a re six dogs; (3) on the hatchway aro • , fruft b .°* es about ten feet high, whicli ; fell, and caused the death of sixteen valuable rams, there arising from tho wbolo a most [ obnoxious smell." i Signed by: John 'J. Groomc, N.Z., T W ! r Ok l e J v , Hunt ' N - Z - A - S. Daniel; , G. F. Norris, N.Z., R. Ross., N.Z. William , can J. Grout, N.Z., A. Stafford, G: T. liar- : F%LI n k J-°- , Pearson .' N.Z., Thomas L Sh £ \ :D'mcdin, Aγ Starr, E. Meredith, i, , W JI - &n "Hi. J- W. Toohev JJ'Z R«iri ■ nald Hoare, Hamble . Hants NZ k I J. Merman N.Z., L. Jones, N.Z., A. Sugars ■ Monk Tn hnstmas r- A " G - -JMwrds. C Monk 11 H. Simpson, J. Wright, H A Vor- ■ bSLW , *!! e - La ««t a wii on,;: Hannan P -Alexander W. Binks, A. B ; clu^- Mv ' G - Ilunt - E - «• Car^. • Mr. Cecil Jones, manager for tho Huddart- ' >f ? n i Pa r y ', t0 complaints wot Sβ i&. ded,nod t0 espre/s ani ' ophiim °"