WINCH CHAIN BREAKS
FATAL BARGE ACCIDENT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, 28th October
Fatal injuries were received by Leslie Gordon, aged 38, of Mercer, .a skipper employed by the Roose Shipping Company, while loading logs on to a barge on the Waikato Paver halfway between Hamilton and Cambridge to-day.
A winch chain snapped, inflicting a crushing blow. Mr. Gordon was brought to Hamilton by beat, but expired on arrival. He leaves a. wife and ton children.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 104, 29 October 1932, Page 15
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