WHARF LABOURER KILLED
STRUCK BY A FALLING CASE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 10. A fatal accident occurred on board the steamer Matatua at tho Railway wharf this afternoon, when a waterside worker named Ernest Alfred Bowles received such fearful injuries that he expired almost immediately. Deceased was working cargo in the hold when a case became detached from a sling and fell 35 feet, striking the unfortunate man a terrific blow on tho left temple. Deceased, who was thirty-five years of age, leaves a wife and three children. This makes a total of thirty accidents which havo occurred to waterside workers on the Auckland wharves since December 30th, two of which have proved fatal. The Waterside Workers’ Union decided at its last general meeting that in future all work should cease on the wharves for twenty-four hours in a case of a member of the union being killed or dying from injuries received while working on thq wharves. All shipping companies were notified to this effect. The secretary of the union informed a reporter that as far as he could at present state tho deci- - P d at by his union would be effect in the present case.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 7
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198WHARF LABOURER KILLED New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 7
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