THE WIMMERA.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16256, 5 July 1918, Page 3

THE WIMMERA.

I i-LELIX-O AGAINST AIIENS. ! (rR£iS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WANGANTI, July 3. Tho Wiminera disaster has accentuated the feeling ever the alien question. The Borough Council last evening passed a resolution urging the Government to intern all enemy aliens, to cancel tht- naturalisation of any naturalised citizen whose loyalty is open to doubt, and to treat him as iui enemy alien. It was also resolved that the granting of naturalisation in future be hedged round by moro stringent conditions. MISSING THIRD OFFICER. }Ir Archio H. Brookes, late third officer of the "Wimmera, was 36 years of age. 110 was educated at the Devon- | port School, Auckland, being the son of Mr and Mrs G-. H. Brookes, Balmoral road, Mount Eden. He- leaves a wife and two children, one boy three years and a boy seven months old, who reside in Elgin street, Grey Lynn. Commencing his seafaring life on the barque Northern Chief some years ago> he had a varied career, both in sailing and steam ships, in most parts of the globe. Fortune favoured him up to the present sl.ipwreck, ai he left no fewer than seven vessels on tho trip immediately prior to this loss. Ho was one i in a shipwreck in the China Seas caused by a collision. l'"or some time ha was m the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, both on the East Coast and intercolonial vessels. He was third, second, and chief officer eventually gaining his master's certificate when on the s.s. Wairuna, which later was torpedoed by the Germans. Leavifig tho ITnton Steam Ship Company, he joined the Barns-Philp Co. xa the Australian and Island trade, but & few months ago joined the_ HuddartParker Steamship Company in his late position to enable him to roach homo more regularly. THE STEAMER'S LIFEBOATS. A point wliich has hitherto gone unrecorded in connexion with the Wimmera disaster was mentioned by Corporal Chapman, ono of the Gnrvivors who got away in No. 5 boat. "1 should, like to draw attention to the splendid condition in which all the lifeboats were found," he said, "and I think all credit for this should be given to the Hud-dart-Parkcr Company and the crew. The sails and tacHe were new, _t hero was plenty of fresh water and biscuits aboard. Had it not been for tho forethought and care in attending to these details ther* is no doubt but that our experiences would have been very ntucn. harder."