LOSS OF A LAUNCH
FORMAL INVESTIGATION APPOINTMENT OF ASSESSORS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday' Captains J. G. Watson and F. Dewhurst have been appointed nautical assessor.', to act with a magistrate in an inquiry to bo held into the recent collision between the motor-vessel Breeze and the launch Bessie. The Minister of Marine, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, said to-day that tho inquiry will be held shortly at Timaru.
The launch Bessie was sunk through being struck by the Canterbury Steamship Company's motor-vessel Breeze a few miles off the coast near Timaru on August 16. Throe fishermen, Messrs. A. Bell, R. Latimer and N. P. 13racefield, who were in the launch at the time, narrowly escaped drowning, being picked up by the Breeze. The Minister of Marine stated at the beginning of tlio present week that in addition to the preliminary inquiry into the occurrence, already held, there would be a formal investigation by a magistrate and two assessors, in terms of the Shipping and Seamen Act.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 12
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168LOSS OF A LAUNCH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 12
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