CORRESPONDENCE.
BROKEN GLASS.
To the Editor. ■Sir, —li is very sad to see so much broken glass about just as the races are approaching. ’testerday J saw a quantity at the top of Rattkawa Street beyond the Hotel. I picked up most of the ugliest pieces, and soon idled my right hand/ the left hud parcels, and took them where I hoped they would be out of harm’s way. But I saw the prints of a horse’s hoofs among them, it had come down with two feet close together on a heap of the broken dangerous pieces, and a stick or whip was close by. Once a young pupil of mine trod on an upright piece of broken glass in the grass at the side of a road. It penetrated through the sole of her boot and entered her foot. Her father pulled it out. but with it came some of the flesh and muscles. A doctor was fetched at once, and cut off the boot and stocking, but the poor child suffered much and could not use her root for some time. It any splinters penetrated that poor horse’s feet, who would take them out? or even be able to'find them all? It grieves one to think about it. —Yours, etc., H. E. WETHEY.
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Otaki Mail, 1 June 1923, Page 3
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