ANOTHER DOCK ACCIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 7

ANOTHER DOCK ACCIDENT.

PAINTER JAMMED BY A PADDLE WHEEL.

An accident occurred at Calliope Dock, early yesterday afternoon, while a, number »{ men Were engaged in painting operations at the Northern Company's steamer Wakatere. which was docked on Monday, but fortunately no fatality occurred. It appears that .some 12 men were engaged on the painting work, operating at the time on the inner portion of the port paddle-box, when the paddle wheel, without warning, suddenly revolved, and a number of the men were caught. David Robert*, a young unmarried man, residing at Freeman's Bay, who was sitting on a plank higher than his companions, was lifted up and jammed between the plank and a float; the rest, however, escaped without injury of any kind. There was considerable difficulty in extricating Roberts, who had been jammed very tightly, and Dr. Grattan Guinness, who arrived soon after, found that Roberts had sustained injuries to his back. Constables Eccles and Berry., who were summoned, removed Roberts in the Borough Council's Ashford litter to Mrs. Bongard's nursing home in Vauxhall Road. La.fe la.st night it was ascertained that the injured mam was a good deal better, and it was not anticipated that any serious injury would result from the accident.