A SEAMAN'S ROUGH BURIAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 2

A SEAMAN'S ROUGH BURIAL.

! AUCKLAND, April 14. At the nautical enquiry into the Wai-Tuna-Moonah collision to-day, one witness, referring to the case -of Seaman Smith, who was drowned, said that sufficient evidence had not been taken to establish identification, and he had been 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 body. Was. he registered as unknown? Mr. May: I believe so. Mr. Kettle: Where was he buried?

Witness: Out Waikumate way. I think the company would have been prepared to give him decent burial, too. I sa w some sort of a black affair go out, but -it was unfit to carry the remains of a human being, even|if he were only a sailor. It was fit for a dog. Mr. Kettle: The";coroner and the police should have seen to this. ' '

Sergeantu Ramsay stated that everything had been! done that was possible in the ci/cumstances, iujd the coroner was satisfied that sufficient pains had been^ taken to, establish identification.