SEVERE INJURIES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 5

SEVERE INJURIES

IN COLLISION MOTOR CYC LI ST -A N D TR AMC AR. (Per Press AsseJationr-?iCopyright,) S.-NEW PLYMOUTH; . An anaesthetic was , \ the street to a young | bell, an employee at tljj J gvaftata \ Freezing Works, who, whiaf jpnWg a | motor cycle to-night, cfa;lne<U Into a ? Now Plymouth tramear. He suffered a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee, a double fracture of the right thigh, a severe gash on the right thigh, and facial abrasions. Ho was taken to the hospital.

WANGANUI RIVER, FATALITY.

WANGANUI, January Id

Dragging operations were , carried out, without result, to-day by the police, who searched the river below Parakinp, twenty miles from Wanganui, for the body of Noel. Gledhill, a single man, aged 29, of Wanganui, who disappeared in the river yesterday while bathing.- -■-! ,

FARM WORKER DROWNED.

LEVIN,' January*;',

Jack McLaughlin, 18, ‘whosereside at Karori, Wellington; was drowned in the Manawatu River at Kopuataroa- yesterday. ~■/ -' >•. He was a form worker, and went for a swim in the evening. . As he did not return, a search was made/ His clothes were found on a, bank. Dragging operations were continued, but so fa.r the body has not been recovered. ,

MAN’S NECK FRACTURED

AUCKLAND, January 16.

The -death-, of iSamuelFlaveil, aged 69 years, of Northcete, : occurred: in the Auckland Hospital;: ’. to-night. ; Flavell fractured his neck on November Ist, but - not realising, the .seriousness of his injury, he continued to -walk about.

Six weeks later Flavell wa« admitted to the hospital, where he remained strapped to. ; a steel- frame. * n •