ANXIETY IN LYTTELTON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 7

ANXIETY IN LYTTELTON.

NAMES OF OFFICERS AND CREW. fill TBLBGItAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION.} CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Tho long voyage of the dredge Man Chester, which lett Lyttolton on 4th April for Sydney, caused 110 very marked anxiety in Lytlelton until during the last few days, but shipping people frankly admit now that they tiro genuinely ♦ alarmed . The Manchester is a hopper dredge of 833 tons, with twin Bcrew. She was Bold to tho Sydney Harbour Trust recently by tho Lyttelton Harbour Board. A representative of the Trust supervised tho fitting of the vessel before her departure, and Mr. J. Sidall, chief en» gineor of the vessel, is a member of the Sydney Trust's Btaff. Many of the officers and crew belong to Chrifitchurch and Lyttelton. J. Downie, the master, wo« in the shore employ of the Union Steam Ship Company at Lyttelton, and the chief ' mate, L. Schultz, lately was on the small packet steamer John. Other members of staff and crew are s — Second mate, A. Baxter ; second engineer, A. J. Avers; third, J. W. Crombie; A.8.b., T. Dally, D. Rodgers, G. Easson, P. Prophet, 0. Augustin, ana S. »v. Christie; ordinary seamen, S. J. Gilray and S. Anderson : greaeers, J. White, A. Blundell, and R. W. Aidridge: firemen, H. O'Neill, J. Galbraith, E. Pitte. C. H'Dermot, and G. Lambert ; steward, <T. M'Queen ; cook, R. Wallace. Mrs. Sidall, wife of the chief engineer, flpcompaniea her husband. She signed on os, stewardess.