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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1925, Page 3

TRAWI jKR S A R.REST KB. LONDON, November IS. Skipper George McGregor, on the reiurn of the trawler Ninas to Grimsby yesterday, reported that while fishing olf Iceland a. Government motor-patrol ran alongside and accused him of trawling in Icelandic territorial waters. He* denied the accusation, hut a Danish gunboat which followed declared him under arrest and escorted Ids vessel to Tea Fiord, where a tnn lasted live days. Witnesses declined that a vessel, which they believed to he" the Minus, hut the name and numlier of which they could not read, was seen trawling close inshore. Skipper McGregor admitted that the ship was in the vicinity hut was laid to with boilers blown down and was not

fishing. , The court imposed a fine ot iNoU. which thev insisted must he paid in gold kroner at the old rate of exchange. The matter is being reported to the Foreign Office and Ministry of Fis.ier--50 The trawler Sarpedon also returned vesterdav and reported having been arrested off Iceland, taken into Okurovri, and lined £620, payable in gold kroner at the old rate of exchange The vessel’s .gear was also stated to )ia .ve »een confiscated, compelling her to iv curn to port empty and adding £;"00 lost expenses of the voyage to her penalty.