BOY INJURED
ACCIDENT AT CROSS CREEK. RIGHT ARM LATER AMPUTATED. (“Times-Age” Special.) A boy of three years of age. Clive Marino, was seriously injured at Cioss Creek yesterday. The boy apparently wandered on to the railway line and ■was struck by a train. He was rushed to the Greytown Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the right arm. The injured child was first seen by an engine driver who noticed the boy lying alongside the lines. The child was immediately brought into Featherston to Dr G. S. Sharp’s surgery and thence to the Greytown Hospital. The victim of the accident is the youngest child of Mr and Mrs J. Marino, residents of Cross Creek. The Greyt'own Hospital authorities reported this morning that the boy had passed a fair night and he was doing as well as could be expected.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 4
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141BOY INJURED Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 4
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