THE KIA ORA WRECK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 152, 27 June 1907, Page 2

THE KIA ORA WRECK.

NAUTICAL, INQUIRY. (Continued from page 4.) The nautical inquiry into the wreck ;of the Kia Ora was continued. At yesterday's hearing the theory was propounded that a strong inset often preceded a strong westerly or north--westerly wind on the west coast. Such a. wind arose the night after the wrecL. and Mr. C. C. Kettle, who presided over the inquiry, decided to communicate ■with Captain Edwin, Government Meteorologist, as to the conditions prevailing at the time of the -wreck. The following reply was received, and was read by Mr. Mays this afternoon: "Every indication that there was a strong current setting on to the shore "between -Manukau and New Plymouth on 13th and 14th of this month."' Thos. Chambers, A.8., who was at the Ihefan when the vessel came out of Waitara Eiver, said when clear of the bar the captain set the course north a quarter east, and he repeated that course to the man who relieved him at 10 o'clock. The vessel swung an average of half a point each side of her course, hut steered easily. By Sir. Kettles He had heard no cor-n-plaints as to bad steering on the Kia Ora. In. ordinary weather the land could be seen all the way up.