EAR TORN OFF, THEN STITCHED ON AGAIN
-Presa Association.)
Youth's Head Caught in Machinery
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. To have his right ear torn oif when his head was caught in some machinery was the experience of an engineer 's apprentice employed at the foundry of Messrs Mason and Porter, Ltd., in Parnell. The ear was stitched on at the hospital and the youth's condition tonight was not regarded as serious. The injured youth was Geoffrey Marten Douglas, aged 19, of Morningside. While working on a maehine shortly before six o'clock to-night, Douglas had the sleeve of his pullover caught. He was dragged into the machinery and Ins ear was amputated. Douglas also sufBerCd lacerations of the right shoulder before he was dragged elear; by a workmafsr
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 4
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