FIREMEN'S QUARTERS.
THE POSITION ON THE MAORI. REPRESENTATIONS TO MINISTER. [From Our Correspondent:.] WELLINGTON, August 12. A complaint that the stokers' quarters in the bow of the ferry steamer Maori would be a death trap in case of collision was personally investigated to-day by the Minister of Marine, accompanied by the chief officials of the Union Steam Ship Company and by Mr W. T. Young, secretary of the Seamen's Union. It was represented to the Minister by Mr Young that in the event of a collision the firemen would be cut off from escape, as the only exit to their quarters in the foc'sle was right in the snip's bows and would in case of_ an ehct on collision be almost certainly blocked, when the men would be caught in a sort of death trap. The party inspected the position and Mr Young suggested as a remedy that special access and egress might be furnished by cutting through the bulkhead and opening a passago to the coaming of the forcliatch. which coykl then bo ascended by a perpendicular enclosed ladder. There would be no communication between the firemen's quarters and the hold in that event. The Minister promised consideration of the representations.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10538, 13 August 1912, Page 3
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202FIREMEN'S QUARTERS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 10538, 13 August 1912, Page 3
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