BURIAL OF A SAILOR.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day. At the nautical inquiry into the Wai-nuia-Moonah collision, one witness, referring to the case of the seaman Smith, who was drowned, said that sufficient evidence had not been taken to establish identification, and he was buried like a dog. Mr Kettle : One would have thought that every fragment of evidence would have been obtained in order to establish the identity of the bodv. Was he registered as unknown? Mr Mayo : I believe so. M r Kettle : Where was he buried? Witness: Out Waikumete way. I think. The company would have been prepared to give him a decent burial too. I saw some sort of a black affair go out, but it was unfit to cany the remains of a human being even if he only were a sailor. It was fit for a dog. Mr Kettle :The coroner and the police shoidd have seen to this. Sergt. Ramsay stated that everything had been done that was possible in the circuriistances, and the coroner was satisfied that sufficient paiiis had been taken to establish identification.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 5
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