WATERSIDER’S DEATH
FELL INTO Hold of a ship (PA.) Dunedin, Nov. 8. A waterside worker, Mr. Peter Whitburn, aged 44. a married man, living at Opoho, was killed instantly to-day when he slipped and fell Into the hold of the overseas freighter Acadia at the Dunedin wharves. As a mark of courtesy towards the deceased the waterslders ceased work during the afternoon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 263, 7 November 1945, Page 4
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