HAWKE'S BAY CRASH

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20491, 6 May 1938, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY CRASH

THE INJURIES DETAILED LONG TRIP TO HOSPITAL (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NAPIER. Thursday The police left early this morning j for the scene of the plane crash and j have not yet returned, but a message ! was relayed to town for an ambulance I to meet the party at a bridgeless river. The party is not expected to reach Napier till after 3.30. Mr Murphy received a fractured left ! wrist, two fractured right ribs, a j wound In his forehead, while his left ! ankle was sprained. His general con- ! dltlon is fair. Mr Britton suffered a severe facial laceration. Involving the eyelids ami severe injuries to the spine. There was no paralysis and the concussion passed off. His condition is fair. WAIT FOR ATTENTION INJURED MEN’S ORDEAL 1 (By Telegraph.—rress Association) HASTINGS, Thursday. j After being 19$ hours without medical attention, the two Injured occupants of the Hastings aeroplane which crashed in Pakuratahi Valley, north of Napier, yesterday, were reached by a doctor at 11 a.m. to-day. The men were later brought to the Esk River by members of the Napier St. John Ambulance Brigade, assisted by volunteer stretcher-bearers. They were taken across a flooded river by % boat and transferred to a Napier Hospital ambulance.