Oil in Hrabour.— Edward Hambier Hopkins, master of the overseas motorship Hororata, pleaded guilty iri the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday to having allowed oil to escape into the harbour. He was fined £5- 10s. Mr J. R. Woodward, who for the defendant, said that a night engineer, contrary to the instructions of the chief engineer, had put watef and oil pumped from the shaft tunnel through the separator, and had then discharged the water into the harbour. Unfortunately the water still contained a small quantity of oil. Mr C. G. Penlington appeared for the Lyttelton Harbour Board.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27201, 19 November 1953, Page 9
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