WAHINE MISHAP.
OPENING OF MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY. WELLINGTON, July 29. An inquiry into the circumstances leading up to the accident to the interisland express steamer Wahine in Wellington Harbour on June 5 was opened in the Magistrate’s Court today. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., presided, and with him as nautical assessors were Captain J. Mawson and Captain J. G. Watson. While coming up the harbour in a fog at the end of the trip from Lyttelton the Wahine, shortly before 7 a.m., crashed into the concrete Pipitea Wharf, which bit into the bow of the ship for some 20 feet. The bow of the Wahine remained fast in the decking of the wharf for several hours, but the ship, with a gaping rectangular hole in her bow above the water-line, was eventually freed with the assistance of tugs. Lengthy evidence was heard and the inquiry was adjourned until to-morrow. -(PA.)
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Wairarapa Age, 30 July 1936, Page 5
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