WATERSIDER KILLED
FATALITY OX RAILWAY WHARF
While engaged in discharging coke from the Union Company's collier Kaitoke a few minutes after 10 o'clock this morning, Frederick Hadfield, an elderly married man, who lived at 108, Oweii street, received injuries from which he died within a few minutes.
It appeara that the deceased was occupied in. clearing the slings after the coke from tho ship's hold had been dumped into the trucks, and the accident occurred when he slipped off the truck and fell heavily on tho wharf. The City Ambulance was (summoned, and it was found that he had fractured the base of his skull and also his nose. He died just after ho had been lifted into the ambulance, and was taken to the morgue.
An inquest will be held,
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12
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131WATERSIDER KILLED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12
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