DUNEDIN NEWS.
DROWNING ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, last night.
At the inquest touching the death of Annie Wrigley Coulter, stewardess on the steamer Victoria, who fell over the wharf and was drowned while going aboard, a verdict was returned of accidental death by drowning, no blame being attachable to anyone. The jury added a rider calling the attention of authorities to the necessity for the wharves being better lighted, and that chains or ropes should be provided to prevent similar accidents. GRAIN SACKS. The A. and P. Society, in considering a communication from the General Manager of Railways re the weight of grain sacks, resolved to recommend that the weight of <*rain in the sacks shall not exceed two hundred pounds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 807, 23 January 1903, Page 2
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