MASTER TO BLAME
LOSS OF SCOW HERALD CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED The Court of Inquiry which sat yesterday to consider the stranding of the scow Herald on Flat Rock on July 14 found that insufficient care was exercised in making the vessel’s course, and ordered the certificate of the master, Captain Edward Sellars, to be suspended for three months and assessed his share of the costs at £2O. He will be allowed time to pay. DELIVERING the Court's verdict, Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., said: “The Court is of the opinion that the master, in endeavouring to make a course on the land side of Flat Rock with the wind off the land, did not give sufficient attention to making that course. It should have been known to. the master, when still a sufficient distance from the rock to allow the vessel to be taken out into the open water, that there would be a risk in endeavouring to pass on the land side of the rock and, in not taking a safer course then, he was failing to exercise the care which is required of a master.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 16
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186MASTER TO BLAME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 16
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