PIPE-STEM IN GULLET.
♦ A STRANGE ACCIDENT. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (PRESS ASSOCIATIO* TELEOBAJI.) WHANGAEEI, November 20. An unusual accident occurred at Portland on Thursday evening to Norman Lightband, aged 50 years, of Grove street, Edendale, Auckland. He fell down a bank while smoking a pipe and the force of the fall drove the stem of his pipe through his gullet to its full extent, a distance of 2i inches and then snapped off, inflicting a dangerous wound. An operation was performed at the Whangarci hospital on Friday and the stem removed. The patient is at present making progress.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 11
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97PIPE-STEM IN GULLET. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 11
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