CAPTAIN NOT TO BLAME
STRANDING OF KETCH NAUTICAL INQUIRY Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. A verdict that the master, Captain T. Henderson, was not to blame, was returned at the nautical inquiry into the stranding of the auxiliary ketch Aratapu, at Waitara on March 30, which was opened at Lyttelton yesterday. Mr. H. A. Young. S.M., decided, on the evidence, that Captain Henderson had wisely used his discretion in deciding to enter the port. He had negotiated the bar safely, and that was the only point on which he had information. It was true that the harbourmaster had told the master of the Aratapu that the spit had shifted, but had not suggested that the change would affect the water inside the bar. The harbourmaster, knowing the conditions, should have taken soundings inside the bar, as the captain expected him to, and should have told him if there was any material change.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 18
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151CAPTAIN NOT TO BLAME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 18
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