ADJOURNED INQUEST.
Nelson, This day.
The adjourned inquest on tho pifr>t boat catastrophe was resumed on Thursday, when a verdict was returned that Win. Reader, while in the execution of his duty, was drowned from the pilot boat on the 14th of August. A rider was attached recommending that not less than five men be employed in the pilot boat, and that it bo compulsory for a steer-oar and life-belts to be always carried for the future. Seven of the thirtecu jurors put in also the following :_•< That in tho opinion of tho jury Pilot Lowe did not use sufficient promptitude in trying to save the pilot boat's crew, as we consider ho lost all presence of mind and did not get the Wanaka into a proper position for towering a boat, as quickly as he might have done, or taking the man aboard of the steamer, seeing that the weather was getting so much worse."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3843, 10 November 1883, Page 3
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