A NEW NOSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 14

A NEW NOSE

SURGEON’S ART The work of Sir Henry New lands* Adelaide, the famous plastic surgeon, has resulted in a Greek girl, Katherine Pingari, 17, receiving a new nose. Miss Pingari had her nose completely slashed off by a man at Port Pirie "in March of last year, and has been under the care of Sir Henry ana Dr. Smith at Adelaide Hospital since May. Beginning in May, Sir Henry took a piece of a rib bone for the bridge of the nose. When that healed, he tooK a piece of flesh from the girl’s forehead for the nose. Then a piece was taken from her arm to replace that in her forehead. The girl breathes through a tube When the nose is completely finished she will have two little silver tubes which will not show. She arrived with her mother from Cyprus in January, 1929, and was to have married Tomas Argyropulon, aged 2S, also a native of Cyprus. Her fearful injuries were inflicted by Argyropulon in a back room of her brother-in-law’s residence, where she was staying. The slashing is said to have been the culmination of argument about the girl’s refusal to marry the man.