Accidents

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 27 February 1914, Page 2

Accidents

A little boy of five, Hugh Roberts by name, while playing in the shelter shed in the school grounds on Monday, was pushed off his seat, and fell to the ground with such force that the bone of his right leg was fractured. His brother,, only a little older, and not much bigger, carried the little fellow home on his back to Starrtown where his parents live, the distance thence from the school being quite a mile. After Dr J. C. Macdiarmid, who was called in, had set the fractured bone, the boy was taken to the Waikato Hospital at Hamilton. On Monday afternoon while rolling a cask up a plank into a dray, Mr Norman Wilson, an employee of the Northern Timber Co., Taupiri, sustained a badly bruised leg and a nasty lacerated wound requiring five stitches which were inserted by Dr Macdiarmid. senior. Evidently the cask rolled backward, and jamming the limb between itself and the plank, caused the injuries mentioned.

Mrs Geo. McCauley, of Ohinewai, while spending a few holidays with friends in Hamilton (Mr and Mrs J. Bruce), had a very narrow escape from serious accident. It appears that a party had been arranged to go for a drive on the Sunday to Ohaupo, and while proceeding down a steep part of the road at “The Narrows," the horses bolted, and the driver was thrown out. Mrs McCauley, who had her two-year-old child with her, threw the latter out on to the road, and jumped after it. The horses proceeded for some considerable distance towards Ohaupo before they were stopped. The child was unhurt, while the mother escaped with several bruises and a nasty shock. While rowing home from his work on Monday afternoon Mr Aspey fouled the punt rope with the result that the boat he was in capsized and precipitated its occupant into the water. Clinging to the punt rope with the •strong current against him was no easy matter. Fortunately, his cry for assistance was heard by Mr T. Cumraack, who, getting a boat, was soon able to rescue Mr Aspey from his awkwark and trying position. The involuntary dip was not attended by any serious after effects.