ACCIDENT AT MANDER'S MILL, PORT ALBERT.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 214, 8 September 1893, Page 2

ACCIDENT AT MANDER'S MILL, PORT ALBERT.

A young man named Thomas E. Inger, of Port Albert, (vas admitted to the Auckland District Hospital, suffering from a severe injury to his foot. On Thursday evening Mr Mander, proprietor of the Port Albert sawmill, worked his employees overtime in order to Execute orders for the cargoes of two vessels lying at Port Albert waiting to load kauri timber, and just as the men were . starting.work a large log fell ®n the foot of young Inger, one of the employees, crushing the big toe of the right foot almost to pieces. Mr Mander at once did all he could to relieve the sufferer, and attended, to him as best he could, until the services of Mr Reid, the local seooolmaster, were called into requisition. Mr Peid, who has a good knowledge of surgery and medicine, at once attended to Inger most carefully, and recommended his removal to the Auckland Hospital. He was taken in a cart from Port Albert to Mahurangi, the journey occupying nine hours and being a most difficult one- From "VVarkworth, the injured man, was brought down to Auckland in the s,s. Pose Casey, The house-surgeon at the Hospital informed the young man’sj father, who went down with him, that he is not likely to need his toe amputated, and that every credit is due to Mr Reid for his careful attendance on the sufferer.