WATERSIDER INJURED

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 137, 5 March 1940, Page 9

WATERSIDER INJURED

Wellington Accidents Caught between a moving truck and a wharf .building while working on the ■Wellington waterfront at 4.55 p.m. yesterday, Mr. J. AV. Gib.b, waterside worker, 1115 Ririe Street, received a fractured left thigh. An apprentice shipwright, Mr. T. E. Edmundson, 20 Rodrigo Road, fractured both feet when, he fell about 25 feet down the hold of ,a steamer on the Wellington Patent Slip, Elvans Bay, at 4.20 p.m. yesterday. Mr. E. AV. Olapham, 59 Ellice Street, had the tip of his right thumb severed when it was caught in a pressing machine yesterday afternoon. An injury to his left leg was received by Air. J. ißudgles, pensioner, 21S Rintoul Street, when he fell from the footpath at the corner of Vivian and Taranaki Streets at 1.45 p.m. yesterday. AV hen two cycles collided in College Street at 4.55 p.m. yesterday, Air. A. Bassett, painter, 34 Jessie Street, and Mr. A. Kimsley, storeman, 79 Totara Road, received injuries which necessitated their removal to hospital. Air. Bassett received' a lacerated wound to his left eyebrow, and Mr. Kimsley received a scaln wound. An injury to his clies’t was received by IMr. G. Everitt, waterside worker. John Street, when caught between a moving imotor-triiclk and the side of a steamer on 'the Wellington .waterfront at 7.15 p.m. When a motor-ear collided with a telegraph pole on the ..Hutt Road, near Nga■haurauga, yesterday afternoon, Miss Hanghson, Fortification Road, received an injury to her right shoulder. ’'Dio injured (persons were taken to the Wellington Public Hospital by the Free Ambulance.