HAYFIELD ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1929, Page 3

HAYFIELD ACCIDENTS

ONE ENDS FATALLY

AUCKLAND, January 21

Two shocking hayfield accidents have occurred near Te Arolm, one resulting 'fatally. Antonio Raffalo Fraiuli, aged 50 years, was killed at Ngarua this afternoon as a result of a stacking pole falling on him. He was struck on the head and chest and terribly injured, dying before a doctor arrived. By some means the pole had worked loose, and finally crashed on to the workers, others having narrow escapes. Frandi had himself erected the stacking pole. At Wailiou on Saturday afternoon Bernard John Barker, aged 17. who works 'for H. 0. Cooper, received a badly injured leg and fractured arm. His leg was later amputated. It appears that while the men were at work the stay-rope of a stacking pole loosened, and before- the men on the other side of the stack saw the position the pole crashed down and the boom struck Barker a terrible blow before be could avoid it. He received serious injuries Ids left leg being crushed and broken, and also bis left arm. He was rushed to Te Arolia and then conveyed to the Hamilton hospital, where an operation was periormed and his leg amputated just above the ankle. Barker has but one relative in New Zealand, a distant one in Christchurch.