SPEED ON SYDNEY HARBOUR
TIGHTENING UP THE REGULATIONS ULIMAROA’S CAPTAIN FINED (Rec. March 1, 10.15 p.m.) Sydney, March 1. As a result of the Greycliffe disaster, the harbour speed regulations are being tightened up. Captain Wylie, ot the Ulimaroa, was fined £5 to-day for exceeding a speed of eight knots within the harbour. Harbour Trust officials said that they had been detailed to watch the vessel, and timed >er passing down the harbour •between two marked points. They’ checked the 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 that he travelled the distance at a speed of exactlv eight knots. Asked, whv at a certain point he did not fallow the’ usual practice of swinging deep into the channel he said he wanted to be sure he was within the regulations, ns he had heard a timing trap had been set for that dav. The Magistrate, in inflicting the minimum fine, said 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 did not think Captain Wylie’s breach could have culminated in any serious accident.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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207SPEED ON SYDNEY HARBOUR Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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