BOATING ACCIDENTS .
TO THE EDITOR, Several communications have been addressed to the local papers re the late lamentable boating accidbnt on the Kaipar*. Perhaps, if tho Government acted upon the following suggestion, scores of valuable lives might be saved:—Every owner of a vessel, whether propelled by steam, electricity, sails, or oars, shall obtain a certificate showing the number of passengers such vessel is fit to carry. The licensed number of passengers to be carved in a conspicuous position on the vessel. At present, every passenger vessel,even to a waterman's boat, has to be licensed, and it is only just that private pleasure yachts or boats should be similarly licensed. Every holiday may be seei%private pleasure boats going away most dangerously overloaded, ana it is only a merciful providence that causes such a few fearful catastrophes being reported.— am, etc., Auckland, January 21,1896. . Mariner.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10035, 23 January 1896, Page 3
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