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A WHARF ACCIDENT.
fPRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON, March 5.
vVhile the stevedores were placing hatch coverings over No. 3 hold on the steamer Surrey this -evening, the steel cross beams slipped out of position and) fell, with two of the. men, dowai the empty hold, a distance of thirty-eight feet. J. Beard, an unmarried man, w&s pinned' below one of the beams and kiUed. John Usher had am arm broken and his jaw fractured. He is also supposed to have suffered internal injury.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9309, 6 March 1907, Page 8
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82A WHARF ACCIDENT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9309, 6 March 1907, Page 8
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