ARTERY SEVERED
MOTOR-CYCLIST'S DEATH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.l AUCKLAND, April 11. When his motor-cycle collided with a motor-car as it was turning into the Great South Road, Walter John. Lucas, of Ponsonby, had an artery in his. left leg severed and he died from the injury in the Auckland Hospital tonight. Mr. Lucas was single, aged 34, and was caretaker of the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby. He was formerly a tram, conductor.
A volunteer transport assistant. .to the St. John Ambulance Jield a tourniquet until the ambulance arrived from the city and ' also in'the ambulance while it was driven to hospital, where he gave further assistance. The ambulance driver, Mr. Hugh Hyan, also donated blood at the hospital for transfusion to the patient, who suffered much loss of blood. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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128ARTERY SEVERED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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