MAN PUT ASHORE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 663, 17 January 1933, Page 5

MAN PUT ASHORE.

Australian Trawler in N.Z. Waters. UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY. (Special to the '* Star.”) AUCKLAND, January 16. A Sydney ‘trawler, the Alfie Cam, unexpectedly put into Manukau Harbour yesterday to land a member of the crew suffering from a septic hand, and as a result, a scheme to catch fish off the New Zealand coast and offer it for sale on the Australian markets, was discovered. But for the need of landing the man, it is considered likely that the trawler would have completed her fishing and returned to Australia without putting in to any New Zealand port. The man who was brought ashore for treatment at the hospital was Walter John Carey, aged fifty, of Auburn, Sydney, and the trawler was a vessel of 282 tons, built in England in 1920. Put Ashore For Treatment. Carey had his right hand injured in the engine-room on Friday last, and when the wound became septic, the master, Captain W. Reid, thought it advisable to put the man ashore for expert treatment. The Alfie Cam arrived off Manukau Heads shortly before one o’clock, but remained cruising about outside. An hour later the motor vessel liokianga, bound from liokianga to Onehunga, arrived off the bar, and was requested by the trawler to take Carey into port. As there is a regulation which forbids any person landing from an overseas vessel without permission from the Health and Customs authorities, the master of the liokianga suggested that he should lead the trawler over the bar. This course was agreed to. When the liokianga arrived at the wharf at Onehunga she reported the matter, but in the meantime the injured man had been taken off the trawler by a private launch. According to Carey, the Alfie Cam, which is owned by Cam and Sons, left Sydney ten days ago to try out a new scheme for catching fish off the New Zealand coast for Australia. The crossing of the Tasman occupied five days, and fishing was begun off Three Kings and Cape Maria van Diemen. No Power to Interfere. “I cannot recall any regulation which would debar an Australian trawler from operating in New Zealand waters,” said Mr Hefford, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, commenting on the ; activity of the Sydney trawler, Alfie Cam.