LIFE PROTECTION ON SHIPBOARD.
Per Press Association. Dunedin, August 28.
The enquiry into the drowning of Joseph Thomas Hughes by being washed overboard from the schooner Waratah in a heavy sea 011 July 16, off Oamavu, concluded to-day. The Coroner (Mr C. C. Graham) came to the following decision: "That deceased was accidentally washed overboard from the schooner Waratah, and drowned at sea, and that the accident might possibly have been prevented had proper life-lines been fitted 011 the vessel as. required in terms of section 9 of the regulation of February U, 1907, and would further suggest that in future it be made imperative that in circumstances similar to the present, a strong netting, supported by wire l properly set up, be fitted in lieu of life-lines.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 29 August 1907, Page 2
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128LIFE PROTECTION ON SHIPBOARD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 29 August 1907, Page 2
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