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A'REHEARING WANTED. ACTION BY COASTAL MASTERS. [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] '• Auckland, May IS. A petition is being made to the Minister for Marina for a rehearing of tho inquiry into the causo of tho reccnt Wairuna-Moonah collision. As a result of tho recent investigation, it will bo remembered, tho Wairuna was exonerated, and tho master of the Moonah found to bo at fault. Ho was also ordored to pay all costs of tho formal examination, and his certificate was suspended for six months. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed, and coastal masters generally were up in arms. Tho Auckland Coastal Masters'• Association hold a special meeting, when it. was suggested that all sailing masters should at onco leave their ships as a protest against tho finding- of the court of inquiry. Upon discussion, this was modified, but it was unanimously decided that if tho decision of the Court was to stand, they would refuso to accept the responsibility of navigating their vessels, and withdraw from the command of their ships. " Wo will certainly leave our ships if the decision of the Marine Court of Inquiry is not reversed," said a master mariner to a Press representative to-day. "We may at any timo bo placed in exactly the same position as the master of the Moonah, and none of us could do more' than he did. If the decision is upheld, then we will , bo compelled to force tho owners to take the responsibility." Mr. Richard Organ, secretary of the Auckland Coastal Masters' Association, stated that the master of the Moonah (Captain Sylva) was forwarding a petition to tho Minister asking for a rehearing, and it was hoped that thd case would como before the Supreme Court. The Association was, also forwarding' to the Minister for Marine a strongly-worded petition pointing' out the fa-cts of the case-as they affect coastal masters.
" The Moonah is now up on tho slips," said Mr. Organ, "and from the nature of the injury to the vessel we are more than ever satisfied that tho decision of the Court was unjustified." "•
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 3
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