STRANDING OF WAKATU.
COURT DELIVERS EXONERATION OF CAPTAIN. ||8 || [by telegraph.—peess association.J WELLINGTON. Saturday. ; -jp§ The report of the Court of formal vestigation into the stranding of steamer Wakatu on Waipapa Point o* |pfll September 6, stated that the causa the. mishap was that the ship had subjected to an unusually strong f|jpj|L|g towards the north-west owing to action of the wind and tide. master sat a reasonable aud P*®sßp4W j course, which, under ordinary J stances should have carried him w ■« clear oi Waipapa Point. The Cww|||||| consideru that when the captain ■ v y countered thick weather he should ,4 streamed the patent log, but omission 1 ! do so was not th« cause of the stranduw « ,rnj nor did it in any way contribute IM** <•>,, #
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18838, 13 October 1924, Page 6
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