OLD MAN INJURED

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1932, Page 6

OLD MAN INJURED

.SUFFERING FROM BROKEN LEG. ‘SYDNEY, 'September' 29; When being attended to, after his wife, 82, had trudged miles in blinding rain for help, pain-wracked George Geddes, 84, who had 1 lain some hours 'at with a broken leg, pleaded for his pipe 1 Geddes’ fracture is severe, but yesterday—a clay after—he was quite cheerful. “I’ll toe right again in ten days,” he grinned, when visited by Superintendent Loth, of the local ambulance. “Then. I’ll be willing to ride against the youngest -and' best horseman in the State!” ' Thirty-five years ago, Gedde.-. -nd his wife settled on a small property on Kveamba Station, and 'they set out to make their fortune from the land. The old man was adjusting a legrope at six,o’clock on .Friday morning when the cotv kicked him, breaking his right leg. When he did not return to the homestead 1 for breakfast, Mrs Geddes became alarmed, and, after a search, found him in agony. As she was unable to relieve his .suffering, she walked through the heavy rain fo-r help. One.of the old farmer’s /friends then trudged a further' two miles.to call the Wagga Ambulance, and ,a rescue .party set out. Geddes, who is a true stoic, claims to be as good a rider as any young man in the State, and 1 is willing too hack himself against all-comers, desoite his age. He was admitted to Wagga Hospital.