WATERSIDERS DEATH
OTHERS SUFFER ILLNESS DRINKS FROM RUM CASKS. [ Per Tress Association. I TIMARU, May 9. John Patrick Lane, aged 31, single, 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 had been knocked in and apparently swilled with water. Lane was left on 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 illeffects from 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 8
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