RANGATIRA MISHAP.
Counsel Engaged for Rehearing By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 13. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, will preside at the re-hearing in Wellington of the official inquiry into the striking of the inter-island express steamer Rangatira on the rocks off Sinclair Head, Cook Strait, on February 2. The Marine Department will bo represented by the Solicitor-General, Mr H. H. Cornish, K.C., assisted by Mr N. A. Foden, and Mr P. B. Cooke, K.C., with him Mr. E. K. Kirkcaldie, will appear for the master of the vessel, ■Captain W. D. Cameron. Although March 18, 19 and 20 have been suggested as the tentative dates for the rehearing, it is said that the final decision has yet to be made. No Ministerial statement is available, but tho full personucl of the Court will be announced by the Minister of Marine, probably to-morrow.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 7
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