BUSH ACCIDENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 540, 8 February 1913, Page 5

BUSH ACCIDENTS.

AN UNLUCKY HANG. An unfortunate crop of accidents occurred to a gang of bushmen employed in Mr Newton King's bush at Nukahakari in the Marokopa district. The gang,who had been in the bush for the past seven months, were within a few days oE cutting out when one of them named Smith, last Thursday had the misfortune to fall over a precipice and had a miraculous escape from being hurt. On the following day another mate named Bowen, whilst engaged in felling a tree was hit by a limb which fell from the tree just as it was falling and received severe injuries to the back. On Saturday the worst of the accidents occurred when. T. Ward, who was cutting some scrub, was hie by a limb and more generally known to bushmen as a "sailer." His head was split open and nasty injuries to the back and left side, necessitating a visit from Dr Will, of Te Kuiti. The doctor arrived early—a distance of fifty miles —on Sunday morning, and attended to the injured man, whose removal to the Hamilton Hospital was ordered. Ward who is deßsribed as a most unlucky bushman, has bad the misfortune previously to have lost an eye, the hearing of one ear, and many other accidents. This is his thirteenth time in hospital through bush accidents.