LOSS OF THE KAPONGA.
MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRY OPENS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday.
A magisterial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the loss of the Kaponga, which was stranded on Greymouth bar on May 27th, was comlmenced to-day, Mr Page, S.M., is presiding and the assessors are Captains Worrall and Dowell.
At the outset counsel for the Greymouth Harbour Board suggested that marine inquiries should be held in the ports which were concerned in the mishaps. There was always a possibility of material 'evidence not being available if the inquiry was held elservhere. Counsel for the Marine Department said the venue of the inquiry was entirely a Departmental matter. In the present case it w T as a matter of convenience. Wellington was the Kaponga’s home port and the officers and crew were coming to Wellington. It would have been necessary to keep them in Greymouth or take them back there for the time the inquiry lasted.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 June 1932, Page 5
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