THE KAIPARA INQUIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 311, 10 February 1910, Page 5

THE KAIPARA INQUIRY.

THE PROCKEBfXGS CONCLUDED.

JUDGMENT OX SATURDAY,

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.

The enquiry into the stranding of the Kaipifi'a in Kangitoto Channel on January 14th was concluded this afternoon.

The sworn evidence of Captain Fors.diclc, at present master of th? Orari, taken at Christehnrcli, was presented to the Court, giving an account of the incident of llui Waimate touching tinbottom of the channel at what was iTevert to be the same spot where the Kaipara struck. Addressing the Court, "Mr. Cotter saM (the evidence showed that Auckland ha> ■ibor was always c«nsidered one of tße in the ivotld. It had contained a hidden danger in the nature of an uncharted shoal in thp fairway. Tbe evidence 'brought forward to this effect jrenjovefl all possible responsibility for what Tiappened 'nun thi' shoulders of Captain Cornwall. Thare was no giouiul for believing that the Ivalpara had he.'ii irijtired tn any nav <it the wharf. The suggestion that the list had contributed to the accident had. lie said. Nvu -practically abandoned, since ihoiv was not a single witness who had gone into -the box and said that the list had anything to do with the casualty. In conelusion, lie strongly cond; nuict :;ie ij'cial chart, which had proved entirely misleading a nil a grave soar,'.- of danger to navigators. The Court reserved its decision till