STRANDING OF ARATAPU.
CAPTAIN- NOT TO BLAME.NAUTICAL COURT'S FINDING. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The finding that Captain T. Henderson was not to blame was returned at the nautical inquiry into the stranding of the auxiliary ketch Aratapu at Waittara on March 30. The Court, over which Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., presided, decided that Captain Henderson had wisely used his discretion in deciding to enter port. He had passed the bar safely, and that was the only point on which he had information. It was true that the harbourmaster had told the master of the Aratapu that the spit had shifted, but he had not suggested that the change would affect the water inside the bar.
The harbourmaster, knowing the conditions, should have taken soundings inside the bar. The master expected the harbourmaster to take soundings and to tell him if there was a material change.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 14
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