THE RONA BAY ACCIDENT.
FUTURE PRECAUTIONS. The recent drowning; accident at noun Bay ami the fad Hint I lie lamp.- at the end ni' (ho wharf were not lighted V:IS referred to al Hie meeting ot Ihe Harbour Board last evening. .Mr. 11. C. TeH-.-ley, who brought (he mailer up, said he undors(-od that a errlain reflection had been ca«t on Hie hoard in the fact that the lights' were not lit. He understood, as a resident of Day's 11-iy, (hat. the crcurronce was not an uneomnioii one. The chairman flfr. R. Fletcher) said lie bad made inquiries. 11: hud broil a very stormy night, and something had gono wrong with the lamps. They were acetylene lamps. The caretaker had them coins again a little lime alter the accident, and previous to that ho had been working at-thorn for a long lime. Mr. Fletcher added that no one was more concerned than the caretaker at the accident. They were going to whitewash the front corner of the wharf and also put a handrail along a part of it.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1190, 27 July 1911, Page 4
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178THE RONA BAY ACCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1190, 27 July 1911, Page 4
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