WITH BROKEN NECK
BOY’S TRAIN JOURNEY MOVED TO WANGANUI Geoffrey 'Bartrum, a schoolboy, was admitted to Wanganui Public 'Hospital last week-end with a fracture of a vertbbra in his neck received in an accident in a gymnasium at New Plymouth IBoys' High 'School some weeks ago. After the accident the boy was admitted to a New 'Plymouth hospital, and for some weeks remained semi-conscious. Last week, however, he rallied, and it was decided to remove him to Wanganui. 'Special arrangements were made with the (Railways Department tc ensure a smooth and careful journey by the express train from New Plymouth. A. specially-sprung stretche: was swung in the guard’s van, and s nurse accompanied the patient tc Wanganui. The train staff undertook to exercise every care on the journey by avoiding jolts during the stopping and starting of the train. The patient reached 'Wanganui none the worse for his journey, and wher he was admitted to hospital his conch tion was satisfactory.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 8
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