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PROGRESS RADIO REPORTS SYDNEY’, YVednesday. Evening newspapers in Sydney severely criticise the master of the Ventura for his failure to respond to early radio queries from Australia about the condition and the circumstances of the Tahiti’s passengers. The United States Consul here, Mr. Roger Tredwell, points out that the radio station at Pago Pago is owned by the United States Navy Department. Therefore Captain Meyer was not entitled immediately to respond through that station to commercial traffic, but he was able to take command of that station and send emergency messages. That he actually did, announcing the rescue of ail the passengers and also the fate of the Tahiti’s mails and of the ship itself. The next duty of the captain was to report to his company. Then no doubt other radio traffic would be dealt with by him in order of precedence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 9
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145SKIPPER CRITICISED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 9
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