TAINUI DISASTER.
CHABGES OF NEGLIGENT LOADING. CHRISTCHURCH, February 26. Three charges under the War Regulations, arising out of the disaster to" the coastal steamer Tainui near Cheviot, Jast September, occupied the Magistrate's Court to-day. Frederick John Needham, manager of the shipping department of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, which owned the Tainui, and Claude Smellie, shipping clerk in the employ of the same company, were charged with endangering the safety of the
ship by loading benzine in leaking receptacles that were improperly stowed; and Frederick William Partridge, manager oi the Vacuum Oil Company at Christchurch, was charged with procuring the said loading. The charges were not finished when the court rose for the day.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 50
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114TAINUI DISASTER. Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 50
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