FATAL ACCIDENT ON WAIMATE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT ON WAIMATE

■ ... « ■ .WELL-KNOWN SHIPWRIGHT . KILLED. : ' Tbp New , Zealand . ■ Shipping Company s 6teamer Waimate was the scene . of.] a fatal accident as it lay., at ■ the King's Wharf yesterday morning. At about 11.30 a.m. 'Mr. Thomas Wood, head of the firm of S. Wood and Son, shipwrights, in the course of ; attending toisome of his firm's work on the yes-.: 1 Ecl ) was i walking alongrtho shelter deck when he tripped and fell over the'comb- . ing of a hatchway' to the bottom of the hold, a distance of about 20. feet. He was in the company of .Mr. A. E. Walker, Lloyd's Surveyor; at the time, and had just turned* to his companion, and uttered the words, "Look out, Mr. : AValker, the hatches are all uncovered,"; .when he tripped and fell. He was killinstantly, his neck'beingi broken and. his skull fractured. Dr. Gtilmer, who was • summoned; pronounced life extinct: The body has been removed to the Morgue, andininquest ,is to- be held at, a date yet to be fixed. ' The lateMr.Wood was well. known in shipping circles, and was highly respected.. He leaves a widow and. eight "■ children. Deceased, who was' about 40 years of age, became head of the firm of' S. Wood and Son o» the death of Ilia fat/her, Mr. Samuel Wood 1 .