A SAILOR'S APPEAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 8

A SAILOR'S APPEAL.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, to-day. Judge Cooper and Captains McArthur and Post, assessors, had before them iv the Supreme Court to-day an appeal by Frederi civ Gamble, second officeriof the Penguin, agaiaist the sus^ pension of his certificate by the-magis-terial court that enquiretei^iovtlie 'Penguin-Gertie , coUisioii/vv^on" the; ground that:;the..Sliipising;,:;.and Sea— • men's ._Vc'i\'..;re^uire\l. .-that before a certificate can be. suspended, there must have .been .serious, damage to the ship ■through the act of defendant or the 'person /holding a certificate. The court found that serious damage had not; '.been, sustained, and upheld the appeal, and awarded appellant £5 5s costs. ;