FURTHER EVIDENCE.
Received August 19, 1.10 a.m.
SYDNEY, August 18.
The second 'officer coinsidered that if the officers had exercised more authority early on the voyage things would have gone much more orderly, and they would not have had so much trouble. The sickness was just one of those epidemics.which will break out among a lairge body of men.
The third officer said lie had sailed. in vessels carrying New Zealand troops, and they had not more room in proportion-; but there was discipline, and consequently no trouble. He asserted that there was much laxity on the part, of the military officers and a lot of drunkenness, amongst the men.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11715, 19 August 1902, Page 5
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