SEAMAN INJURED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 8

SEAMAN INJURED.

ACCIDENT ON WAIRUNA.

A seaman named W. H. Peebles, employed on the Union Company's collier Wairuna, met with an accident shortly after the vessel left port last night, outward bound for Newcastle. The Wairuna cleared the harbour shortly after 7 p.m., and returned to the stream two hours later to land the injured man. While she was steaming through the Rangitoto Channel, several members of the crew were engaged in placing the hatches over the open holds, and while thus occupied, Peebles lost his footing and fell through the open hatchway. In his fall, he managed to grasp a cross-beam, but in doing so, his shoulder came into vcontact with the ironwork, and was dislocated. Captain Drewette thereupon turned his vessel round, and on reaching the. harbour signalled for a doctor. Dr. 0. Aickin and Constable Tobin. of the water police, proceeded out to the vessel in a launch', and after the injured man's shoulder had been attended to, lie was brought ashore, a;:u taken to his home. Peebles had a luckv escape from serious injury, as, but for the cross beam breaking his'fall, he would have fallen to the bottom of the hold and probably have been seriously injured. The Wairuna resumed her voyage again a few minutes before 10 p.m.