SHIPPING INQUIRY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10242, 3 September 1909, Page 4

SHIPPING INQUIRY.

(Pee Press Association.} Auckland, September 3. A Court of Inquiry opened this morning in connection with the accident on the Northern Steamship Company's Rarawa, whereby material damage was done to the after boiler on the steamer. On May .27, on the voyage from Onehunga to New Plymouth, as stated, the boiler became overheated owing to shortness of water, and the ; steamer, which at the tihie was carrying a number of passengers,: returned to Onehunga. The question was whether" the accident was due to negligence or wrongful act or default of any person on the vessel or elsewhere. Those specially concerned are A.. B. SOndoe (first engineer), A. M.: Price (second engineer),"and R. ■ Smallbone (third engineer). V -'-•. .'.';.■' * ':.