IN SYDNEY HARBOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20085, 2 March 1928, Page 7

IN SYDNEY HARBOUR

ULIMAROA’S SPEED Captain Fined for Exceeding Eight-Knot Limit REGULATIONS TIGHTENED. (By Telegiaph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Alarch 1. 11.10 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, Alarch 1. As a result of the Greycliffe disaster, the Harbour Trust speed regulations arc being tightened up. Captain Wylie, of the Ulimaroa, was to-day fined £5 fo* exceeding a speed of eight knots within the harbour. Giving evidence in the Ulimaroa case, Harbour Trust officials said they had been detailed to watch the vessel, and timed her passing down the harbour between two marked points. They checked her speed with watches and assessed it at over eight knots. Captain Wylie gave evidence that he timed the vessel between the two points and found he travelled the distance at a speed of exactly eight knots. Asked why, at a ccrtaian point, ne did not follow the practice of swinging deep into the channel, he said he wanted to be sure he was within the regulations, as he heard a timing trap had been set for that day.

The Magistrate, in inflicting she minimum fine, said that though Captain Wylie was mathematically faulty, he did not consider there was any wanton carelessness. He took a lenient view of the case because he vid not think Captain Wylie’s breach could have culminated in any serious accident.