SYDNEY HARBOR

Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4

SYDNEY HARBOR

SPEED OF SHIPS ULIMAIIOA’S CAPTAIN FINED. SYDNEY, March 1. As a result of the Greycliffe disaster, the harbor speed regulations are being tightened up. Captain Wylie, of the Ulimaroa, was fined £3 for exceeding a speed of eight knots within the harbor. Giving evidence in the case, Harbor Trust officials said that they had been detailed to watch the vessel, and timed her passing down tho harbor between two marked points. They checked tho speed with their watches, and assessed it at over eight knots. Captain Wylie gave evidence that he timed the vessel between the’ two points and found lie had travelled the distance at a speed of exactly eight knots. Asked why, at a certain point, lie did not follow' the usual practice of swinging deep into the channel, lie said he wanted to be sure he was within the regulations, as he had heard that a timing trap had been set for that day. The magistrate, in inflicting the minimum fine, said that, though Captain Wylie was mathematically faulty, ho did not consider there was any wanton carelessness. Ho took a lenient view of the case, because he did not think Captain Wylie’s breach could have culminated in any serious accident.