TOO FAST

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 50, 3 May 1928, Page 3

TOO FAST

SHIP’S MASTER FINED

SYDNEY, April 18

For several months Harbour Trust officials have been constantly on the look-out for ocean-going vessels which exceed eight knots an hour f in the harbour. To-day in the Central Summons Court, Captain Robert Darroch, master of the steamer Goulburn, was fined £lO, in default two months’ imprisonment, for having proceeded at a speed exceeding eight knots in the port of Sydney. John Frank Carter, Sydney Harbour Trust Inspector, said that at 11.34 a.ra. on February 1 he saw the Goulburn coming past Fort Denison. He awaited a pre-arranged signal, which he received. The vessel was doing 10.4 knots between Fort Denison and Bradley’s ' head.

Darroch said that he had been away from Sydney a long while, and was “not too well aware what the .ship would do.’’ He knew there was a regulation gazetted, but did not know that it had been enforced. Mr J. A. Alverez appeared for the prosecution.