PORT KEMBLA'S CREW

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3196, 21 September 1917, Page 6

PORT KEMBLA'S CREW

ARRIVE IN WELLINGTON SHORE COMMUNICATION NOT ALLOWED members of* the crew of the jiinken steamer!: Poi't.V.Kembla arrived from Nelson'.by the 1 Pateena at . 11.20 o'clock last night." There were over a dozen police constables and officials, including the .Commissioner and the inspector, on the wharf, and no one was allowed near the Pateena. The Press representatives wore; informed that the • crew would remain on board for the night/, and' that /nothing further concerning 'the Joss >of the: Port Kembla would be.-mn'deSpublic' until after the magis- - terial-inqUiryi- which'will be'held almost immediately. ; The -Union Steam Ship Company and the'New'Zealahd Shipping Company have presented £5 to each officer and <£3 to each, member of the crew for the purchase of- clothes and otlier necessary ar- . tides. SEND-OFF FROM NELSON. By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, September 20. Tho crew of the Port Keinbla left this '•morning for "Wellington. They were . -given a public-send-off, and conveyed to the wharf By "cars. ," _ Most of the crew had submarine experiences. One man had no fewer than six torpedoing experiences. . . -Captain Jack, who had been suffering > from the effects of liis lengthy immersion, .was about yesterday afternoon. The Port Keinbla went down with her whistle blowing. Captain Jack specially asked a '"lau leporter to thank the . Mayor and citizens of Nelson for tho kindness extended . to the officers and crew. He said lie • v; could not speak too highly of the treat- • ment they had received here; in fact, they'were" being treated 60 well that they scarcely wanted to go away.

MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY TO BE HELD; Mr. George Allport, Secretary of ' Marine, informed a Dominion , reporter yesterday that it had been decided : to hold a magisterial inquiry into the circumstances of the disaster to the Port ;' .. ,Kembla. The inquiry will be Md at an ' , early date, yet to be- decided on, and ' \ il, i 9 understood that it will_pc held in . \ camera, as there arc certain circuni- ' stances which it would be unwise to make t Mniblie. The nautical assessors have not 1 appointed as yet. . ■ THE VESSEL'S MAILS : SO ">.l 'IL. MATTER FROM THE KINGDOM. ' Th-» Post auTelegraph Department has recei7od. adV/"*3 from Melbourne tli<it '• the Port. ICcmbla oarried the following i mails:— •' : ' Melbourne to North, 2 bags: : Napier, 3 bags; Now Plymouth, 4 bags! < ■ Gisborne, 2 bags; NoUmi. i bags; Auckland, 22 bags and 7 pnrccl receptacles; Greymouth, 2 bags; InvcrcareiH, 4 bags and 2 parcel receptacles; Wellington, 37 I;. bags and 28 parcel receptacles; .Onucdin, 17 bags; Christchurch, 16 . Sydney to Palmerton North, 3 bags; "Napier, 2 bag ß : New Plymoulb, i bsgs; Gisborne, 1 bag; Nelson, 1 bss: Auckland, 8 bags; Greymouth, 1 bag Tnvcr.'cvgill, 2 bags; Wellington, 9 bags; DuiioV i-A'din,4 bags; Christchurch, 5 bass; Lj'ttel- ' i ton, 1 bag; Wariganui, 2 bags; 2 bags; Tahiti, 6 bags. . Brisbane to Dunedin, 1 bag; Christ- . church, 1 bag; Wellington, 1 bag; Auckland, 1 bag; New Zealand (miscellaneous),. .1 bag. ... Perth to Bluff, 1 bag; Invercargill, 4 bags. "" ..... • Fremantle to Wellington, 1 bag. Adelaide, to Dunedin, 2 bags; Christchurch, 2 bags;. Wellington, 4 bags; Auckland. 3 bags. . Hobart to Dunedin, 2 bags; Christ' ■ church, 2 bags; Wellington, 5 bags and y v 4 parcel receptacles; Auckland, 2 bags. Rf Launceston to Wellington, 2 bags. Calcutta to Bluff. 3 bags.and 1 parcel receptacle;* -Invercargill, _ 4 bags, aud l parcel receptacle; Wellington, 4 bags; Auckland, 3 bags. • Aden to Bluff. 1 bag and 3 parcel .re- ! coptacles; . Invercargill, 1 bag; Wellington. Ibng; Auckland, 1. bag and 2 parcel receptacles. , For a transport to Kw Zealand. J bag. ' Cape Town, to Wellington, 1 bag. A statement regarding, the lost mails ■was made in the House of Representatives yesterday by the Postmaster-General (Sir ■Joseph Ward). Most of the mails lost •'when' the steamer was blown up, said r-Sir Josenh Ward, had come from Australia. There had been no English'mails ' aboard the bo.it. The total quantity had ' been 220 '.bags of mails and 45 parcel receptacles. It was the largest mail ever , lost en route to New Zealand.