KILLED IN A LIFT WELL.
AUCKLAND, June 10
A carpenter named Henry Lord was killed by falling down the well of a lift in a shop in Quoen Street. Alterations in the shop were being carried out, and the lift was also being altered. Just before the acciclent a plumber passed the place where Lord was working at the top of the lift, and he noticed that Lord was lying down with his head projecting over the TTi't well, engaged in driving a four-inch nail into the ceiling. He did not appear to be in any danger of falling down the lift. Immediately afterwards, however, the plumber heard a crash and found that Lord had fallen to the bottom of the lift well from a height of about thirty feet. A verdict of accidental death was returned, the Coroner adding a rider that the statutory provisions did not call for any safeguards during the construction of such works, but the evidence disclosed danger to workmen and there was necessity for some further provision,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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