SINKING OF DOLPHIN
INQUIRY BOARD REPORT PUBLICATION DEFERRED If issued- at all. the report by the board, of inquiry into the sinking of the Dolphin by the Battery Point coastal defence gun will not be released until the inquest on Mr. Frederick James Brassed is held. "The report is purely a departmental one. as we have to get the tacts as soon as We possibly can." said the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones. The Minister said lie had not. yet received the report, the publica-tion—-if at all —of -anV details of which would be deferred until the inquest was finished. So far. no information had been received as to when the inquest would be resumed. The report of the board of inquirv was handed last week-end to Colonel P. H. Bell, officer commanding the sou‘hern military district. it was studied by him. and will be forwarded to the Armv authorities in Welling-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 5
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