THE SURREY ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association
WELLINGTON, March 7.
The Coroner continued the enquiry, to-day, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Jame Baird, a lumper, who was killed by falling down the hold of the steamer Surrey. On the previous day evidence had been given of the defects in the fore and after beams which supported the hatch covers of No. 3 hold, on which Baird was standing when they collapsed. The jury found that the deceased was accidentally killed through falling off a fore and after beam which was either not in its right place or was too short, and also from the want of visible numbers on the combings of the fore and after beam. The jury did not consider the stevedore was to blame. The Coroner said that the question of responsibility would probably arise in another Court.
CABLE NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8375, 8 March 1907, Page 5
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147THE SURREY ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8375, 8 March 1907, Page 5
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