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EMPLOYEE MEETS DEATH. MISHAP ON STEAMER. [Per Press Association. — Copyright."] DUNEDIN, This Day. A temporary employee, Orkney James Stevenson, aged 30, a married man with one child, a resident of Queenstown, met his death yesterday while assisting in riveting operations on the coal chute of the steamer Earnslaw. Stevenson was secured by a rope and was standing on the belting of the ship, “holding on,” during the riveting of an iron plate. The vibration of the nammering shook .out a pin, allowing the chute to drop. As it fell it caught Stevenson and pinned him by the neck over the waling of the wharf.
A doctor was called immediately, but could do nothing. Stevenson was to have finished his employment last night,
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Northern Advocate, 20 July 1935, Page 10
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