ACCIDENT AT MOUNT MAUNGANUI
VISITOR BREAKS ANKLE IN FALL FROM JETTY
SLIP FROM SALISBURY WHARF WHILE FISHING
(Times Correspondent)
While fishing from the Salisbury jettv, Mount Maunganui, on Sundav, a visitor to Mount Maunganui. Mr B. J. Blackman of Mount Albert. Auckland, fell from the wharf and suffered a fracture of one ankle. Mr Blackman had hooked a kahawai and was playing it shorewards along the wharf in order to land the fish on the beach when he slipped over the side of the wharf, from which protective rails have
recently been moved to -f extensions, and fell to a bed of r below. ■ , . ii, e Mr Blackman was admitted to Hospital where ms dition is reported as satisfactory.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14927, 15 March 1949, Page 2
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