LABOURER INJURED
STRUCK BY PLOUGH ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL While working on the New North Road this morning, Peter Flanigan, a labourer, employed by the Mount Albert Borough Council, had his temple injured over the left eye through a plough that he was working hitting a bLiried boulder. Vie was admitted to the Auckland Hospital at 9.55. His condition is not serious. Flanigan was engaged at the time of the accident in ploughing a drain up for a new water main on the New North Road. He was using a rooper road plough and he set it to cut a sixinch furrow. The plough hit a hidden rock and tipped forward, the handle catching him just over the left eye. The injured man is 47 years of age and lives at 97 Lome Street, City. He is single.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 17, 11 April 1927, Page 11
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