WATERSIDE COMMISSION
FURTHER EVIDENCE.
(ST TELEGRAPH.—I'RESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
At the Waterside Commission to-day the* superintendent stevedore for Gill and Company, who had charge of the company's waterside gear, said all the gear was overhauled after working almost every steamer. He thought the model T iron exhibited by the commission was an improvement. Discussing three proposed methods of preventing accidents in removing hatches, he said he believed the rope method was the best. It was probable something could be done to minimise accidents in that direction. Work was not now as fast as it was, and had been gradually getting slower for years.
Captain Truern, with eighteen years' coastal experience, said the gear was under obervation all the time on the east coast run, and derricks were examined during voyages to Sydney. He ha-d not found the inspectors lax, but drastic. He was favourably impressed with _ the present system of inspection. The inspectors' suggestions were always carried out.
The Hon. T: M. Wilford, Chief of the Commission, is returning to Wellington. .
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 141, 14 June 1918, Page 8
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172WATERSIDE COMMISSION Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 141, 14 June 1918, Page 8
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