AUCKLAND WATERSIDER KILLED.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 5

AUCKLAND WATERSIDER KILLED.

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Auckland, Feb. 10. A fatal accident occurred on aboard ithe steamer Matafcua at tho railway >wiharf this afternoon, when a%waterside worker named, Ernest Alfred Bowles received euch fearful injuries that lie aspired "almost immediately: , The deceased was working the cargo 4in the hold when a case became detached from a, sling, and fell 35 feel, striking gie unfortunate man a terrific blow on the ieft temple. Deceased was . aged 35 years, and leaves a wife and three child-

Tho present makes a total of thirty which have occurred to watersiders on tho Auckland wharves emce '■ Decomber 30th. two of which have proved fatal. The watersiders decided i»t the last general meeting that m fxituTO all work' should pease on the wharves for 24 hours in the case of a member of the union being killed, or .dying from injiirios recieived while work•■■Lwr, oh-.tlhe' wharves. AUHhe shipping ,».." panics were notified to this effect. ic c>ecretary of the union informed i.- that as (far as he could at rr,n:'.;mt. state.the*decision, arrived, at by a.if, union would> W carried into^ effect i"ln.;sae.;present case. ; ,•