The Wanaka inquiry
— ♦ (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) New Plymouth, This Day. At the Wanaka inquiry the Court gave its decision' to-day j and considers Captain Meads committed ah error of judgment in not " slowing down " and keeping the .steamer's head more to sea, also in not heaving the lead when in the thick haze and approaching land; but the Court conjgidered neither the Captain nor First ■Officer were, guilty of negligence. The Court returned Captain Meads and the Pirst Officer their certificates, but ordered ihe Captain to pay the costs of the en-
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 126, 16 April 1891, Page 3
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