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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 14

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PBOTBBT XA3)B BY MASTER XABZNBB. AUCKLAND, March 16. During the hearing of a marine inquiry into a slight collision between small ships in the Haurakl Gulf, it was stated that the master of one ship of 34 tons gross had gone below after passing North Head and left an A.B. to take the vessel out of port. Addressing the Court, counsel for the master of the other vessel said that he had again to complain of the Marine Department allowing a vessel to be taken out of port by an uncertificated officer. The Officers’ Guild had protested against the practice, and counsel suggested that the Court should do a good service to the mercantile marine by adding a rider to its finding. Decision was reserved. VAJUKTT ELEVEN. The following team will represent Canterbury College in their cricket match against Otago University, to be played at Dunedin next Thursday and Friday:—G. Harding, A. G. A. Baigent, L. G. Loveridge, J. Fraser, A. H. Andrews, A. C. Arneson, H. E. H. Denham, J. F. Kenny, J. Glen, J. B. Turner, J. Vaughan and C. W. Evans (twelfth man).

»UZTBBUim f n BKOP BURGLED. A Chinese fruiterer’s shop, at the corner of Peterborough Street and Colombo Street was entered last evening by thieves, who took £4 in cash.

f”T YACHT RACE. AUCKLAND, March 16. At two o’clock, this afternoon the lightkeeper at Cape Maria van Diemen had not sighted any of the Tasman yacht race competitors. Almost a dead calm prevailed, the breeze from the south being almost Imperceptible. The Maunganuf, from Sydney, is expected to pass the Cape at about three o’clock.