REFUSING TO GO TO SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 184, 18 August 1903, Page 2

REFUSING TO GO TO SEA.

mt PRESS ASSOCIATION. Timaru, August; 17. At tbe Magistrates Court to-day Macfarlane and Samlet*, ssoond and third engineers of the s.s. Isleworth, were prosecuted for refusing to proceed to aw in the vessel. When the steam r was leaving Lyttelton tho fireman lodged a complaint with the Customs officer that tho ship was unseaworthy, and notice was sent to Timuru where the Government Marine Surveyor madi a survey of the ballast tanks which were complained of as leaking and as too weak to support the ship i f she struck a reef and a hale was raadi under the tanks. The surveyor o !?red j two em ill 10-iks to be plated and th tanks were t:s'ed, but; no further were sien. Tho firemen and .econ' and third engineers we:- >i sari fijd, and a few houis befove the -iViiw-r , was to Uavs for SflU'-y in ballot-, fused to go in her un'il a fnr hec stir voy was and*', especially of No. 3 tiiik. Defendants wo'o oider.'d to f.-rfciis " wo day* l pav, !;o p y ho cost rf the pro,-e----ctri'»», and s.iiicif r's lee £2 2s. G>p tain S:isrb?ut-iio de;-li' , e , l 'o r-vr-tveMi* I two uion b ck /.nd oaid hom ;if. j