STRUCK BY SLING
WATERS!DER FATALLY INJURED. ACCIDENT AT NAPIER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NAPIER, This Day. Knocked from a railway truck during the discharging of a vessel at the breakwater last evening at 8 o’clock, William John Culley, an elderly watersider, died an hour and a half later in hospital from severe head injuries. Salt was being discharged in slings from the Kauri and Mr Culley was struck by a sling, thrown from a truck on to another truck, and then on to the wharf.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 6
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84STRUCK BY SLING Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 6
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