THE FERRY DISASTER

Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 5

THE FERRY DISASTER

HARBOR NAVIGATION REGULATIONS A MEETING OP MASTERS. Press Association--By Wireless —Copyright SYDNEY, January 13. As the outcome of the Greycliffe disaster a. meeting of masters of steamers resolved to request the Federal Government to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the navigation regulations of Sydney Harbor. INQUEST CONTINUED. SYDNEY, January 13. At the Greycliffe inquest Mr Justice Herdmau was on the Bench with the coroner. Mr M'Douald, engineer of the Manly lorry steamer Burrabra, gave evidence that the maximum speed of his boat was 14 to 14i knots. In reply to a question by the coroner, he said that off Garden Island his boat was following the Tahiti. The Burrabra was travelling at 13) knots. He saw that they could overhaul the Tahiti on the west side of Bradley’s Head, so be went below to open up tho Burrabra’s engines to full speed. Rupert Nixon, helmsman ou the Burrabra, stated that he saw the Greycliffe alter her course, and added that he did not think there would have been any accident if the Tahiti had slowed down to let the Greycliffe get past. He saw the Greycliffe turn to port across the Tahiti’s course.