THE TAINUI DISASTER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 29 January 1920, Page 5

THE TAINUI DISASTER

ALLEGED NEGLIGENT LOADING. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 28. Frederick John Needham, manager of the shipping department of the New Zealand • Refrigerating Company, and Claude Smellie, shipping clerk of the same company, appeared before Mr McCarthy, S.M., a Lyttelton this morning on a charge that they did by a negligent act, to wit, by loading on board the steamer Tainui, at Lyttelton, certain benzine in leaking receptacles improperly stowed, thus endangering the safety of the said ship, contrary to a I regulation made under the War Regulations Act. Frederick William Partridge, manager of the Vacuum Oil Company, at Christchurch, was charged that he did by a negligent act procure the loading' on board the Tainui at Lyttelton of leaking receptacles and improperly stored the same, thus endangering the j safety of the ship. The charges were made by the Marine Department. The defendants asked that the eases shoxild be remanded, and Captain Marchiel, Government Marine Superintendent at Lyttelton, stated the Department made no objections to the granting of a remand. The Bench consented to a remand 'sine die^ '