WHARF LABOURER’S DEATH
CORONER’S COMMENTS AT INQUEST (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 19. “I have no doubt that wharf labourers will take notice of this accident and will exercise judgment in the loading of small and large packages together; in fact, it is essential that they should do so,” said the Coroner, Mr E. Gilbertson, in giving his verdict of accidental death at the inquest on Donald McLennan, a wharf labourer, aged 53 years, of Wellington, who received fatal injuries when a bale of paper fell on him from a sling he had loaded in the hold of the Karamea on October 13. The evidence about the soundness in the loading of the sling had been conflicting, said Mr Gilbertson, but he gathered that there had been an element of risk in loading small cases on top of a bale of paper. McLennan and his mate were experienced men and doubtless considered the sling safe, but it seemed a case of familiarity breeding contempt.
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Southland Times, Issue 23335, 20 October 1937, Page 16
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