Claymore-Kapanui Collision

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5106, 25 January 1906, Page 3

Claymore-Kapanui Collision

(Per Press Association)

Auckland, January 2.1

The inquest on the bodies recovered after the collision between the Claymore and the Kapanui was continued to-da v.

In the course of evidence. Captain Southgate, of the Kapanui, stated that he could not go inside the Gael on the day of the collision, as he would have had to pass over mine fields, against which the Wellington authorities had warned master mariners.

The Coroner remarked that if this statement had been made at the magisterial inquiry, it might have had an important effect on the decision of the court.