DERRICK ACCIDENT
Replving to a question by one of the Auckland Labour members in the House of Rcptesentiativcs yesterday afternoon. the Minister of Marine (Hon. G. J. Anderson), said that the accident reported from Auckland on Saturday occurred on the Naringa, which was registered at Home, and not in New Zealand. She was running under a survey certificate issued by the Board of Trade, which covered masts and derricks. According to the newsaper reports, the accident occurred to one of the derricks. The regulations issued by his Department in regard to. waterside work did not apply in this case. As tho stienmer was running on a Board of Trade certificate issued in England,. the Marine Department • could not interfere unless there wfere reasons to suspect that the shin was unseaworthy. Tho Minister also stated that the waterside work regulations dealing with lifting gear, which a Labour, member rbcentlv complained were not in operation wore put into operation, in May, 1919.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 8
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160DERRICK ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 8
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