SYDNEY FERRY TRAGEDY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5203, 14 November 1927, Page 3

SYDNEY FERRY TRAGEDY.

PATHETIC ,SCENES AT HOSPITAL. Crowded with injured. ! The following is from a Sydney paper:— At the Sydney Hospital anxious -women waited in groups at the gate, iand in the quadrangles and passages, for hews -of their folk hurt in the smash. The corridors were crowded with bustling doctors and nurses; hurrying to and fro with bandages and medicine,' pushing their way through the clusters of men and women who stood, some silent with fear, others whispering to each other, outside the doors of the wards. Here and there clergymen of all •ages and denominations were trying to comfort the waiting friends, answering questions, directing new*comers'to various wards, and hovering round , the beds. They cheered the women in pain, and brightened up the children as best they could. Every possible corner was filled with a bed or mattress. Small rooms were crowded witih injured women, who lay on mattresses or blankets on the floor—doctors stepping over them to geit to the next patient. Friends, mothers, sisters, sat on the edge .of the “beds,” talking in low tones —some hurried backwards and forwards to near-by city retflreshment ' shops, buying milk and sandwiches for those who were able to eat. “Is Mrs So-and-So in this ward ?” a white-faced man would ask. “No.” “Well, she isn’t home—at Vaucluse, she always travels on that boat —perhaps she’s gone to her sister’s at Jtoseville,” he woul dadd dully, tryRoseville,” he would add dully, trymake himself hope f°r the best. “flow about my exams., mummy ? Will I be able to sit for them ?” whispered one poor kiddiei tremulously. And so the early hours of the night passed—with taxis and private cars dashing up and then away again, each with its set-faced passengers, frightK enedT care-worn, hearts beating unsteadily at the thought of the scenes of anguish in the great stone buildings of the hospital.