SUICIDE CAUSED BY OVERWORK.
LONDON, August 2. At the inquest at Bournemouth yesterday oil William Sidney Wolson, 1(>, of Knole-road, l’oscomhe, who was found hanging in a room, his mother, a widow, said he often came home at night too tired to eat. Some nights he did not get home until 10 or 11 o’clock. William John Wheeler, manager of the Cliristehurch-road branch shop of the International Tea Stores, said that the hoy’s normal hours of work were 57 nor week. He admitted that on Thursday the hoy had sometimes been at the shop until 11 p.m. The jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity, uecellerated by overwork, and they suggested that the fuets should ho placed before the inspector under tho Shup Hours Act.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1924, Page 3
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127SUICIDE CAUSED BY OVERWORK. Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1924, Page 3
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