PRECAUTIONS ABOARD FISHING BOATS
Remarks by Coroner By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, March 24. “The time has arrived when fishing boats should be under survey or control. I certainly think stanchions as recommended by tlie master of tlie Maude E. and Marine Department should be installed,” said the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, when returning a verdict of drowning through accidentally falling overboard from the fishing launch Maude E. at an inquest to-day into the death of George Wallace Barker, married, aged 45, engineer on the craft. Barker was missed on tlie afternoon of February 4 when tlie launch was proceeding to the Bay of Plenty. Evidence was given that the crew in order to go forward had to walk over coils of rope. This, it was staled, constituted a danger and suggestions were made by tlie skipper and tlie department that movable stanchions should be erected along the side of the boat.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 10
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