CLANSMAN COLLISION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 137, 16 July 1914, Page 3

CLANSMAN COLLISION.

OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES. Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 16. The Court ol ! Enquiry into the collision between the Northern Company's steamer Clansman and the scow Pahiki, as a rosult of wlych the scow sank in Auckland Harbour, found that the Clansman was not an overtaking vessel, though the collision was due to the neglect of the second officer, Carl-Brink, to keep a sharp look-out; that the failure of the scow to show a flare-up light was an error of judgment, not a wrongful fault. The chief officer of the Clansman, who was not at his post at the time of the collision, could not be cited as a party. No doubt, the Northern Company would take such action they thought proper with regard to his disobedience of the regulations. The court ordered Captain McLeod, of the Clansman, to pay three fourths, and the second officers to pay one-fourth, of the co-.ths of the enquiry.