APPEAL BY CAPTAIN NAVLOR.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12488, 15 March 1909, Page 2

APPEAL BY CAPTAIN NAVLOR.

[Unked Peebs Association.]

Wellington, , March 13. Captain Naylor, of the wrecked steamer Penguin, has appealed against the Marine Court's -finding suspending his certificate, on /the ground that it Had not' been^proved that the "casualty, was due to his carelessness or default; or that under the conditions shelter should have been sought, or the vessel's head put to sea; that it was not proved that the master ,was guilty of a breach of the rules for the preventing of collisions' "at sea ; or that soundings should have been taken ; that there was no evidence to show that the steamer did not strike an unchartered rock or wreckage ; and generally that there was no evidence warranting the Court in suspending the master's certificate.