ALLEGED DUMMY CAPTAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 199, 22 August 1919, Page 6

ALLEGED DUMMY CAPTAIN.

-i i m ...■■■ THE AKAROA CASE. The prolonged proceedings in the case in which the Parker-Lamb Timber Go. was charged with a hreach of the Shipping Act, in that on April 1 it fraudulently engaged Edward Donovan as master of the ship Akaroa, in order to clear, and not for the purposes of the whole voyage, were advanced a stage further before Mr. Wilson S.M., at the Auxiliary Court to-day. P. Lamb was finally cross-examined by Mr. Selwyn Mays (for the Marine Department", and then Edward Miteheltson I was called, and gave evidence in respect to introducing W. Lamb to Sir dames Allen. The Minister, he said, was not misled into believing that Petersen wa3 not on the Akaroa. lie considered that, the Minister was aware of Petersen's presence aboard the vessel Herbert Booth, engineer of tbe Akaroa for two years, said that he hail known • both Petersen anil Donovan as master. In April last Donovan was master. lie . took orders from both. For :>. reason of 11 his own he was inclined to recognise : Donovan as master of the ship. I In rcplv to counsel witness said he

I in repiy lo uuu.iov.. o | thought lie recollected Mr. Lamb having told him that Donovan was master. ; Petersen was the best rafter Under cross-examination witness said :be held the opinion that a Britisher should not be replaced by a German. "Petersen should never have been on the i ship at till. Ami I have told him that i myself," lie essayed. lie knew time Petersen was sometimes in charge of the 1 towing of scows, etc. The Magistrate: Who was actually working the ship?— That is a hard question lo answer. Donovan signed on as master, and I regarded him as master, but. I always questioned Petersen on rift matters. I The case is proceeding.