The eager spectators who crowded tco ] closely round the wood-cbopping competitors at a holiday sports gathering in the Marlborough district the other day were considerably startled when one of the men accidentally let the axe slip from his bands. In its flight it actually grazed the throat of an onlooker, who had a narrow escape, for the keon blade inflicted a wound two and a half inches long—forI innately a shallow one.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1356, 17 January 1905, Page 3
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72Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1356, 17 January 1905, Page 3
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