MAN’S LEG BROKEN
j HURRYING FROM EXPLOSION (Special to Times) GISBORNE. Friday ‘ XVhen he slipped on a boulder in his haste to leave the scone of blasting operations in a creek-bed yesterday afternoon, a Public Works Department employee, Mr XXfilliam Nicol (58) of Boyd’s (lamp, suffered a fractured leg. The fuse was a short one. but fortunately Mr Nicol was far enough away to escape harm from flying rocks after the explosion. The injured man was brought to the Cook Hospital by a Public XX’orks Department ambulance. _
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 8
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87MAN’S LEG BROKEN Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 8
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