THE WAIKARE WRECK
(To the Editor " N.Z. Times.**) Sir, —Amid all the limelight lavished on the heroioal teaching of the Waikare will you kindly allow me to put one question as to the manning of the boats. A doctor gave his statement in your paper that a boat full of ladies was manned by two sailors and himself. This causes a lurid recollection of the s.s. Penguin, whose crow numbered six A.B.’s to five large boats. Stewards and greasers are, I believe, supposed to man the Union Company’s boats in case of shipwreck, and admirable material they would be in darkness and broken water. The fact is the local steamers are “manned” by just enough sailors to throw a rope ashore at a wharf; what happens to passengers in case of disaster as of no consequence. —I am, etc. THAUELLHR. "Wellington, January 10th.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7023, 11 January 1910, Page 6
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143THE WAIKARE WRECK New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7023, 11 January 1910, Page 6
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