OFFICIAL SCANDAL.
PROMINENT MEN INDICTED,
[by telegraph.] Wellington, Thursday.
Informations have been laid under the Shipping and Seamen's Act against Captain Allman, nautical adviser to the Government and chief examiner; Captain von Schoen, teacher of navigation ; and Captain Jones, master of the Harbor Board's Bteamer Duchess. Section 32 of the Act makes the offence of procuring or fraudulently altering a certificate a misdemeanor. The cases will be heard on the 24th. Apart from the Court proceedings a departmental inquiry is to be held. ' It is stated that one of the accused threatens serious revelations in certain eventualities.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 20 January 1899, Page 3
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97OFFICIAL SCANDAL. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 20 January 1899, Page 3
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