WATERSIDER’S DEATH
ALCOHOLIC POISONING SUSPECTED. i SWILL IN CASKS. (Per United Press Association.) Timaru, May 9. John Patrick Lane, aged 31, a single man, living at 26 Evans street, one of a party of watersiders engaged in loading the motor vessel Taranaki last night, was taken home in an unconscious condition, apparently suffering from the effects of alcoholic poisoning as the result of allegedly drinking the swill of empty rum casks in the hold of the vessel. The casks were consigned to the Royal Navy, London, and the bungs bad been knocked in and the casks apparently swilled round with water. Lane was left pn the verandah and a few minutes later was lifted inside, but on the arrival of a doctor he was dead. Five or six other men suffered ill effects after consuming similar liquor, and received medical attention. The doctor who attended the dead man was unable to give a certificate of death and an inquest will be held.
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Southland Times, Issue 22011, 10 May 1933, Page 13
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