ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
HAND AMPUTATED. (By Telegraph—ter Press Association) KAIKOURA, November 10. A railway worker named O’Brien, married, with eight children, who lives in the Blue Duck Valley, Kaikoura, had liis right han { [ badly injured today at Waipapa Point, when lie was blasting for fish in the sea prior to beginning work. He was brought in.to the Kaikoura Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the hand.
MAN’S SKULL FRACTURED. FALL ON FOOTPATH. / CHRISTCHURCH, November 12. Thaddeus Edward l)oody Si a labourer, aged forty-five years, was admitted to hospital yesterday with a fracture of the base of the skull, the result of a fall on the footpath in High Street. A labourer, Harry Wakefield, who was employed on reconstruction work in High Street, was arrested and brought up at the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of assault, causing actual bodily harm. .Senior-Sergeant <■ Fox stated that Doody had annoyed Wakefield, who. after putting up with him for a time, gave him a push, which resulted'in his being injured. ' Wakefield was remanded for a week, bail being allowed in the sum of LIDO and one surety of £1.00.Doody’s condition last night was reported to be serious.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1931, Page 2
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