MANNING OF SHIPS.
IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. A recommendation that no ship should be allowed to put to sea, even within home trade limits, without a certificated master or certificated engineer approved by the Minister of Marine is to be made to tlie Minister by the Marine Court of Inquiry which lias been sitting to investigate the foundering of the auxiliary scow Tamaliaein Hauraki Gulf on September 25. The inquiry concluded to-day and the decision in writing is to be forwarded to the Minister in view of the importance of the issues involved. “We think it very wrong that this ship should have been taken to sea with a totally inexperienced and incapable engineer,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, who presided, before the parties addressed the Court. “I refer, of course, to bis experience as navigator and not as an engineer. It would seem that some provisions of the Shipping and Seamen Act are most undesirable.” After the addresses of counsel had been given, the Court'reserved its decision.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 14
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