Flotsam handed to receiver
Blenheim reporter Medical supplies, including drugs which were part of the emergency equipment carried on lifeboats from the Mikhail Lermontov have been handed to the police for safe-keeping. The Receiver of Wrecks for Nelson-Marlborough, Mr Derek Clark, said in Picton yesterday that it was normal procedure to obtain police security for medical supplies and equipment in such circumstances. He is gathering together all material that has been recovered from the sea or washed ashore. The items are being stored by the Marlborough Harbur Board while he prepares an inventory of them. Mr Clark said that the Shipping and Seamen Act required that flotsam from a wreck be handed to the receiver. All items continued to belong to the owner of the vessel until the owner decided to abandon them. > “We have not yet heard that that is going to happen," he said,
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