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CAUGHT BETWEEN TRUCKS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Caught between two rakes of trucks on the Moturoa wharf last night, Mr. E. Shaw, of St. Aubyn Street, a waterside worker, received two extensive gashes to his right thigh. He was admitted to hospital and his condition to-day is satisfactory. This is the second accident within a month in which a watersider has received leg injuries by being struck by a truck. Mr. W. Lowrie was hit as he was walking to work on March 17 and his left leg had to be amputated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 91, 17 April 1936, Page 8
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