A CALL FOR HELP.
ON ISOLATED HIGHWAY.
MINISTER RENDERS FIRST AID,
(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.")
WAIHO GORGE, Monday
The Minister of Health readied the Fox Glacier on Saturday. Leaving there for the Franz Josef Glacier, his paity was arrested on an isolated mountain highway by an excitcd man calling for help. The" Minister and Mr. O'Brien, M.P., jumped out of the car, and ran to the little hut of Barney Kobben, a Public Works road maintenance man. They found Barney had frightfully gashed his foot with a buslnnan's axe, and had fainted from loss of blood. A temporary mate was trying to stop the bleeding.
The Minister was called upon to render first, aid, and, after an hour's work, the injtijr.ed .man had recovered _ sufficiently to be taken into the Minister's oar and conveved to a nurses' home near the Glacier Hotel, where five stitches were put in the wound. The injured man riotf doing well..
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 8
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