BUSHFELLSNG ACCIDENT.
On Tuesday last, September £6th,_ a young man named Harry Old, met with a serious accident while bush felling on Mr Francis' section at Ivlairoa. It appears that the unfortunate young man was working about eight teet from the ground on the trunk of a large tree when a broken limb detached itself and struck him to the ground. The force of the blow was considerable, and concussion of the brain and bruises to the bodv was the result. Dr Zobel was summoned from TeJKuiti and reached the patient about midnight and rendered what assistance was posisble. The friends of the sufferer carried him about 9 miles on a litter to Oparure, and from there a sledge was secured to convey him to Nurse Kattaway's private hospital, Te Kuiti, where he st j]l ii es in an unconscious state. A sad circumstance in connection with the case is that his mother only recentfe. ]v died, and sympathy is offered to the Rfathor and other members of the
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 2 October 1908, Page 3
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169BUSHFELLSNG ACCIDENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 2 October 1908, Page 3
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