BOY SERIOUSLY HURT
HIT BY ATHLETE'S HAMMER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HASTINGS, 17th. November.
Concussion was received by a^l4-year-old boy, Gavin Stuart,- this evening when he was hit on the side of the head by a: 16-pound hammer which had been thrown by an athlete named Campbell while practising on McLean Park at the conclusion of a Napier athletic meeting. ■ ' ■ . _ '' ,' "-: As Campbell was about: to throw the hammer either he slipped or the hammer left in a direction he did not anticipate and went toward two. boyi who were-sitting-on a fence some distance away. Both boys were knocked from the fence. . • . Stuart was struck on tlie side of the head, while the other boy,was struck only by the chain. The latter sqou recovered, but Stuart was removed to hospital. His condition is serious.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 5
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