COMPANY FINED £25
Collapse Of Boxing During Construction (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. Sept 30. A man was injured when some supporting boxing collapsed on the first floor of a building being constructed in Dixon street As a result the A. Williams Construction Company, Ltd., was charged in the Magistrate’s Court today with failing to ensure that the boxing was of adequate strength. Mr W H. Carson, S.M., convicted the company and fined it £25, and costs 30s. For the Department of Labour, evidence was given that two supporting toms had been removed to allow a concrete-carrying truck to back in under the first floor. Above where the toms had been removed, nearly two tons of material was laid. For the defence, it was stated the foreman in charge did not know the toms had been removed.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 14
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