PINNED UNDER TRACTOR
NGAHAURANGA GORGE ACCIDENT SON OF THE HON. R. SEMPLE INJURED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. After being pinned for an hour under a five-ton caterpillar tractor which fell with him down a 20-foot bank in the Ngahauranga Gorge yesterday afternoon, Mr V. R. Semple, son of the Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, was later admitted to Lewisham Hospital, where his condition was described as serious. His injuries consist of severe shock, loss of portion of four fingers of the right hand and a lacerated wound on the upper right arm. Mr Semple was driving the tractor, which was employed on the Ngahauranga Gorge road construction job being carried out by the Public Works Department. He was backing the tractor on portion of the old road and the bank gave way, causing machine and driver to roll down to the creek below. There with his right arm and hand crushed, and with only room enough to keep his head above the shallow water of the creek in which he was held, Mr Semple lay for an hour until the tractor could be lifted sufficiently to permit his release.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1938, Page 7
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193PINNED UNDER TRACTOR Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1938, Page 7
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