Port will close for funeral
The Port of Lyttelton will be closed today so that watersiders can attend the funeral of a colleague who died this week. Mr James Hodge, aged 48. died in hospital after , being crushed when working inside a container. The secretary of the Lyttelton Waterfront Workers' Union, Mr M. E. Foster, said that watersiders would take the day off as a mark of respect. Mr Foster said he could remember only six deaths as a result of accidents on the waterfront at Lyttelton in the last 28 years. It had become “a procedure” for work to stop on the. day of the funeral of an accident victim. Luckily, it did not happen often, he said. No ship which would have to be worked is due in port today.
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Press, 8 July 1982, Page 4
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