BROKEN SHIN-B0NE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 4, 20 January 1937, Page 6

BROKEN SHIN-B0NE

Boy Struck by Log While Bathing ACCIDENT IN NAPIER SURF A broken slun-bone' was" suffered by ft nine-year-old boy, Robert BtQwning, son of Mr and Mrs G. A. J. Browniug, 32 Latkam street, Napier, as the result of being struck by a log wken ke was batking in tke siirf on the Marino Parade yesterday afternoon. After being taken from tke water by a woinaa wko was witk kim at tke time, tkS lad wias sont to kospital by ambulance, , wkere ke will feinaia for some time yet. . . ^ . iAccompanied by Mrs T. A. Baiu, of Latkam street, tke boy Wflttt swimming in tke surf oppfrsite the top end of Sale street. He was not out of kis depth wken a kalf-Stiblnerged log was caugkt in tke bteaking surf and tkrowa keavily against tlie lad. He was struck on tke -leg and kis skin-bone was smaekedi No sooner, kad ske realised tkat tks lad was in trouble than Mrs Rain reseued kim from the water and went for assistance. Dr. T, Giliay was summoned and ke rendered temporary medical aseistance before ordering the boy to hospital in tk© ambulance. This accident should serve to wam tke public tkat eare should, be taken while bathing in tke surf at any poiiit between tke Napier Breakwater and Cap© Kidnappers at tke present time, because the recent heavy rain kaft brought large logs and otker driftwood down tke rivers and into tke opCn sea. For the past four or five days tke sea kas been littered witk flotsam, muek of wkick kas been caught in tke surf and thrown up on. to tke beack.