ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 12732, 5 August 1907, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

CHIEF STEWARD KILLED. A fatal accident occurred while the Union Company's Aparima was taking in stores at Chelsea on Saturday afternoon. It is stated that the chief steward, Henry Hawkey, was helping a lumper to take in a sing containin. r stores, when the s'.ing swung round and knocked him 0:1 to a lighter alongside., a distance of 30't. Before he was plai-ed aboard the Ap-arima he expired. Hawkey bad a wife and two children in We Hngt-on. He came to Auckland for relief ivrak on the Aparima. He had bren in the cm; kiy of the Union Com--1 any for a nuiid*.';- of years. —P.A. wire from Ai:fk!a::r]. injuries T(i a rmiTEPv. Ja-.-s i'.aMp (tv.enty-five), the driver of a b.ikei'6 vun a was udni tted to tko Lcf : piI 1 0,1 .N-Liiicoiiy saji'erji.r ircm a brokrci collai bono and iwo broken rib;. A>s : .s'e! by a hoy, Cramp w;i? the van boreo in a sled, when the honib started forward, and the barneys not bring clear, the unfortunate driver was jammed" against a post. Ciiunp is making favorable prograss.