POISON IN SOUP
VOLUNTEER SEAMEN AUSTRALIAN INQUIRY MELBOURNE, May 27. The police are now investigating the poisoning by arsenic of five volunteer seamen on the Tasmanian steamer Nairana on May 15, all of whom have now recovered. Mr. T. C. Brennan, the acting-Attorney-Gencral, made this statement when replying to a deputation from the Australian Council of Trades Unions which complained that the Nairana had left port undermanned on that date. He pointed otit that several of the volunteer crew became ill after partaking of soup aboard and were removed to hospital. A subsequent analysis of the soup revealed the presence of arsenic. Mr. Brennan added: “The master of the Nairana attempted to obtain substitutes for the sick men, but was unsuccessful and sailed with more than four-fifths of the crew as permitted by the Navigation Act in cases of emergency.” Mr. Brennan told the deputation, that there was no hope of the licensing of seamen being lifted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 5
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