WATERSIDE ACCIDENTS.
~ — ... ~ ■ AN IMPORTANT INQUIRY. Press Association TelegramAUCKLAND, May 15 A Commission of Inquiry into-the causes and prevention o p-tino's waterside workers opened its sittings *°Evidence was given on behalf of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the witnesses relating their expediences of unduftching of wmdies insufficient lighting of holds and hate wavs and defective ladders in holds and' their ideas as to the needl foi closer inspection of cargo-handling work and P a better system of hatch"fomfVtnessbS .they fought workers should appoint their own ■“JESS ’’JißE' that the'.note a man reported defects m g eal ‘ work ho obtained, .toother witness made similar allegations. _ ■Complaint was also made o insufficiency >of lighting on the Onehunga wharf. Mention was made of cases .general merchandise and foodstuf had been loaded into bolds previously held, manures and cattle before they bad been thoioughly cleaned out. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4870, 16 May 1918, Page 5
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WATERSIDE ACCIDENTS.
Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4870, 16 May 1918, Page 5
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