PAINFUL TRIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1938, Page 11

PAINFUL TRIP.

COROMANDEL FARMER.

FRACTURE OF A LEG.

After a long and arduous journey by improvised stretcher and ambulance, Mr. Harold MacMillan Bull, a well-known farmer of Te Rerenga, Coromandel, is making satisfactory progress in an Auckland private hospital, where he was operated on for a compound fracture of a leg. Mr. Bull suffered his injury when the tractor he was driving capsized on a hillside. He jumped clear, but in doing so fell heavily on to one leg, which was badly fractured just above the- ankle.

A youth 'by whom Mr. Biril wae accompanied quickly summoned by tele- ' phone men at the Opitonur gold mine, I two miles distant, and the doctor at Coromandel. Equipped with a wire mattress, with' two poles lashed to the frame, eight 'miners carried Mr. Bull in relays over rough country, some of which was heavily wooded. The party had to ford streams and follow narrow tracks through the bush, with ae discomfort as possible to the injured man, who bore the pain with fortitude.

Aβ soon as the doctor had examined Mr. Bull an urgent message wae sent to Thames, and from there an ambulance was dispatched. The injured leg was X-rayed at the Thames Hospital, and it was then felt advisable to send Mr. Bull on to Auckland. He was conveyed to the city, and 6even hour* after leaving his homestead was operated on.

TWO CHILDREN HURT.

Two children, both aged two, were injured in falls at their homes yesterday afternoon and were taken to the Auckland Hospital by St. John Ambulance. Peter Lawrence Hays, a son of Mr.'T. L. Hays, of 84 Pah Roadj Epsom, suffered a fracture of the left thigh. He was attended by Dr. M. G. Pezaro before being taken to hospital. Marcelle Lorraine Donald, daughter of Mr. L. J. Donald, of 84, Summer Street, Ponsonby, suffered concussion. The condition of both was reported to be not serious to-day.

SCHOOLBOY INJURED.

Concussion and lacerations to the scalp were suffered by a schoolboy, Stuart Goodenough Bawden, aged 12, son of Mr. James Fercival Bawden, of 495, Remuera Road, when he fell from his bicycle, striking his head on the roadway near the Newmarket police station yesterday afternoon. Hβ was taken by St. John ambulance to the Auckland hospital, where his condition to-day was reported to be fair.