WATERSIDER KILLED.
ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A waterside worker, Leonard Coffey, single, a resident of Lyttelton, was killed whje working on the steamer Kahika at Lyttelton this afternoon. He was working on the forward winch, on which he was hauling trucks along the wharf by means of a rope passed through a pulley on the wharf, when his coat became caught in the drum of the winch, and Coffey was carried round and crushed betweed the two drums. Death ensued within a few minutes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1921, Page 5
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91WATERSIDER KILLED. Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1921, Page 5
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