FOUNDERING OF SCOW
MARINE COURT OF INQUIRY PROPOSED SAFETY MEASURES (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. A recommendation that no ship should be allowed to put to sea even within the home trade limits without a certificated master or a certificated engineer approved by the Minister of Marine is to be made to the Minister by the Marine Court of Inquiry which has been sitting to investigate the foundering of the auxiliary scow Tamahae in Hauraki Gulf on September 25. The inquiry was concluded to-day, and the court’s decision in writing is to be forwarded to the Minister in view of the importance of the issues involved. “We think it very wrong that this ship should have been taken to sea with a totally inexperienced and incapable engineer,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, who presided, before the parties addressed the court. “I refer, of course, to his experience as a navigator and not as an engineer. It would seem that some of the provisions of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act are most undesirable.” After the addresses of counsel had been given, the court reserved its decision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23044, 21 November 1936, Page 14
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