SEA FATALITIES
SAFETY OF SMALL CRAFT
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. The growing fatality rate among persons operating small craft round the New Zealand coast is causing the authorities concern, and closer supervision of life-saving and other equipment carried by such craft proceeding beyond harbour limits has been ordered. It was stated to-day that the Public Service Commissioner had appointed Captain T. Bowling, a former member of the Waterfront Control Commission, to the post of supervisor of small craft and that his duties would be to compile rules and regulations with which all owners of small craft would have to comply. As a further measure, the Mercantile Marine, the Navy, the Air Department and local harbour boards would be combined into an organisation to effect sea rescues in an emergency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26232, 16 August 1946, Page 6
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129SEA FATALITIES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26232, 16 August 1946, Page 6
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