STRUCK ON HEAD
DEATH OF WATERBIDER CASE OF MACHINERY FALLS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Tuesday Falling from a wire rope sling at a height of about 30 feet a case of machinery struck a watersider aboard the Aorangi this morning, intlicting extensive head injuries. The man was lowered from the ship to a St. John ambulance in a critical condition and taken to the hospital, where he died a quarter of an hour later. The victim, Mr Nicholas Martin Saunders (65), was a past president of the Waterside Workers’ Union. the accident happened he was 'directing the unloading of cargo. The case weighed about three-quarters of a ton and struck Saunders on the lead.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20501, 18 May 1938, Page 9
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114STRUCK ON HEAD Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20501, 18 May 1938, Page 9
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