THE KAPANUI DISASTER.
IXQUEST ON BODIES.
[SBKSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, January 24. Ihe inquest on the bodies recovered after the collision between the Claymore and the Kapanui was continued to-day. In the course of the 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 to pass over the mine fields,- against which the Wellington authorities had warned master mariners. The Coroner remarked that if this statement had been made at ihe marine enquiry- it might have had an important effect on the decision.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 5
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98THE KAPANUI DISASTER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 5
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