The Adelaide-Wairarapa Inquiry
rkuteb's telegbams Melbourne, April 9. The Navigation Board concluded its inquiry into the Adelaide-Wairarapa collision to-day, and delivered its decision. The Board found that tho Adelaide being the overtaking vessel was bound by the regulations to keep out of the way of the Wairarapa, and that Captain Lockyer was therefore responsible for the casnalty. The Board suspended the certificate of Captain Lockyer for two months, and severely cencur«d both masters and cautioned them in the future. = Captain Berlin, nautical assessor, entered _ j-ro-'le-ii. agninst the finding of the Board, being of opinion that both masters were responsible for the collision.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 42, 10 April 1884, Page 2
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