THE UNFORTUNATE CAPTAIN.
Now that the first feelings of sentiment regarding the Penguin wreck are being dissipated, there is growing up a feeling of sympathy for the Oaptain. As one man well qualified to form a judgment put it to us last night, "Oaptain Naylor took all reasonable precautions consistent with the maintenance of suoh a service. Why Bhonld he not only lose his position with the company in accordance with its rule, bnt have his means of earning a livelihood at his profession, his certificate suspended too?" That appears to be a widely held view in maritime oirclee. The wreck was a dreadful thing and the loss of life, but the court lias absolved the Oaptain of both. One point raised by a correspondent in this issue in regard to the scene of the wreok is of interest. Like Mr MoMenamin we don't believe that it oould have been Tom's Rook—speaking with some knowledge of the looality.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 656, 4 March 1909, Page 4
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158THE UNFORTUNATE CAPTAIN. Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 656, 4 March 1909, Page 4
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