LEAKY PETROL TINS
EIGHT MEN OVERCOME
UNLOADING A SHIP
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(Received 3rd October, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. liiight. men were overcomo by fumes from leaking petrol tins in tho course of being unloaded from the motor ship Brand. _Two were takon to hospital in a sorious condition. Six others were treated aboard the ship. After tho inon had been rescued from tho hold in which they were working, nil work was suspended on the ship. - It is thought that bad weather on the voyage from Colombo damaged the tins and caused the leakage.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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99LEAKY PETROL TINS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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