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YOUTH WITH FRACTURED NECK. SEQUEL TO DIVING ACCIDENT.
While diving on Sunday last, a visitor to Auckland, Mr. William Sydney Heron, aged 20, of Cambridge, struck his head on the . bottom and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. After three days he was feeling better and was discharged. Yesterday afternoon lie found that his neck was paralysed. He was talking to a friend in the street, when he suddenly felt a " click" in his neck as he turned his head. He was unable to turn his head again, and lutd to be taken to the Auckland Hospital. His neck was X-rayed this morning, but the result of the examination will not be known until to-morrow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 3
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