Grave Dereliction of Duty.
(PEB PREBS ASSOCIATION ) Wellington, February 13. Wm. Stewart, second engineer of the steamer Waikato, was committed to goal for one month for disobeying orders. Mr Foster, chief engineer, deposed that yesterday on returning to the ship he found defendant drunk in his Derth. The refrigerating engines were going slow, and the temperature in the meat chamber was raised 5 degrees. There were no firemen in the stoke hole, and the fires were dying away, and in another hour, if this condition of affairs had lasted, there would have been the probability of 1 200 tons of meat cargo on board being seriously deteriorated, if not utterly ruined. His Worship informed accused it waa lucky for him a more serious charge had not been preferred, for not only would imprisonment have been inflicted, but his certificate Mould have been forfeited.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 239, 14 February 1894, Page 2
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