MILFORD TRACK INCIDENT.
A REPLY TO CRITICISM. [BY TELECP.APH.—OW.V COP.BESPOXDENT.J ; WELLINGTON". Wednesday. Commenting to-day on certain criticism regarding the Miiford Track controversy, the Horn W Nosworthy, Minister in charge of the loans'. Department, gaid he was still of opinion that if blame was attributable to anyone it mast rest on the shoulders of the Union Company. The track manager's report showed that the Moeraki did not proceed further into Miiford Sound than the Stirling Falls Anyone who knew the distance and direction of Stirling fails from the Sand fly Hats would realise that it would be practically impossible for the ship's jig rials to he heard from that position. The men, after wasting on the Sound for 15 hours on the date of the expected arrival of the ship, had gone ashore, and ho was disposed to believe their statement that the ' signals v.-ere cot heard Had the ship gone to the usual stopping place at the ikv.cn Falls she would have been plainly visible, and the whole trouble would have beea avoided.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19564, 17 February 1927, Page 8
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