SEQUEL TO COLLISION

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 9

SEQUEL TO COLLISION

SINKING OF THE KAKARIKI COMPANY CLAIMING DAMAGES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, June 24. The case for the defence opened today in the action arising from the collision between the Kakariki and the Caradale in Port Philip. Opening for tho defendants, Mr Fullagar, K.C., said that tho Caradale’s course was set with a view to .giving the Kakariki plenty of room. Had both vessels kept to their courses no collision would have occurred. The master told the helmsman not to go closer to the Kakariki. Shortly after that the port light of the Kakariki disappeared. A single muffled blast was heard from the Kakariki, and the collision was then inevitable. The Caradale was put hard to starboard, and tho engines full astern. Arthur F. Hansen, master of the Caradale, said that after the collision ho endeavoured to keep the hole in the Kakariki filled, but the vessel sank speedily. [The hearing of the Union Company’s claim for £50,000 in connection with the collision of the Kakariki and the Caradale in Port Philip on January 29 began in the High Court at Melbourne on Tuesday. The defendants are “ the ship Caradale and her freight cargo.” The defendants counter-claimed £25,000. The resulted in the sinking of the Kakariki and the loss of five lives.]