Gold-hunt charges
A number of charges laid by the Marine Department against participants in the quest by the Timaru trawler Seafarer for the wreck of the General Grant and bullion in the Auckland Islands, were adjourned for a fixture for a defended hearing to October 10 in the Magistrate’s Court, I Timaru, yesterday. The application for an adjournment was made by Mr J. R. McGlashan, who told Mr I. Hay, S.M., that all defendants would be pleading not guilty. The charges allege breaches of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1952.
The master, Roy Thomas Milford, of 48A Filleul Street, Invercargill, faces three charges which allege that on April 2, 1977, as master of the Seafarer, he took the ship to sea in such an unseaworthy condition that the lives of persons on board were likely to be endangered, that he took the vessel from Timaru to the Auckland Islands on a course on which the ship was more than 50 miles from the New Zealand coast, neither the owner nor himself having informed the superintendent of mercantile marine at Timaru of the
nature and destination of the intended voyage, and that he was master of the Seafarer which went to sea before it was released from a notice of detention by a competent authority. Arthur John Baxter, a fisherman, of Rosebrook, No. 4 R.D., Timaru. is charged with sending the Seafarer to sea in such an unseaworthy state that the- lives of those on board were likely to be endangered. The Seafarer Fishing Company, Ltd, is charged with being the owner of the Seafarer which proceeded to sea before it was released by a competent authority after the master had, on March 25, been served with a notice of detention in respect of the Seafarer.
Richard Brooke McKenzie, a property developer, of 91 Fendalton Road, Christchurch, is charged with aiding and abetting the company which was the owner of the ship in the commission of an offence, and aiding and abetting the master of the Seafarer, in the commission of an offence, in that the master took the ship to sea in an unseaworthy condition.
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Press, 4 August 1977, Page 6
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