A CONTRADICTION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 434, 17 February 1909, Page 9

A CONTRADICTION.

-'Sir,—ln fydur'.;isßue' : of February iGyijou; report'..that Dr.. M'Arthur/S.M;': after'visit?., ing tI.U)/wrockyoniSund4y, stated, that in h'is' ! opinion' that could be done under the circumstance's;"' /.I ,(lo ; npt. lmpw;at -wh'aV: hour Dr.. MVVrthur visited Uioßfiehey'but 1: was thoro'fromVthi'eo" to' four.' n'cloclv p:ro., and' cnn : ainrin,' ; .Syith'oiit hesitation,, that. in. one .special .feature -his' opinioii:is 'extraordinary, ■and 1 assert that some of: the authorities shotted.'■ vast-Jack of judgment, and brains in "allowing 'tho.' bodies : -to remain 'so. long upon open beach, when tliero:wore...vacuut sheds;adjicent,' and after that-plenty..of ...means of .'further removal ar.ra'ngcabliv,."-; '•'•'". *'V.S' : :' ; i: i; {,■■■< <'"''■.;>.■.''.■,-.'''' l ... llie. doubtfulness of taking the bodies via Makara as .an''alternative to , conveying by sea is apparent to anyone who had made th'o journoy by beA)h, ! and'l hayo no.hesitation I in. saying that' a. hundred men would have - } volunteered to carry them, to Island Bay, or -20 horses could have been obtained to'convoy to Ohiro or Island Bay, whence other conveyance would be-available by. roafl. .-';. .. "When .wo . .remember" how easily these ;.methods,coiild lave been adbptcd, I think it was disrrjceful that the bodies should have been allowed to remain from Saturday morning till,.Monday, on the open ;he.neh, ; 'andltrust, this, feature, of the .deplnrabi? ■ : catastrophe . wilr not allowed to pass vithout proper;OdnDUre."-ram,.eto.i • :'■•}:■■ :,. -/ ;: "' ■ HENRY A.'" MAOKAY,".':■ ■'■■•>'. ■/'', -.: ~ :,• ''. :^st.Beach, Island Bay. '■', ' February 16. : : '■■"■, •;•'.',. '..\ ••';•■ ;-.., :.- :■ [WA have, already ."expressed-'our, opinion 'that the arrangements made by tho police -authorities were .scandalously inadequate to the'ocoasion;];-'; :'. ■ ... ■