ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22491, 27 August 1938, Page 18

ACCIDENTS

ATTACKED BY BULL

FARM WORKER ADMITTED T<S

AKAROA HOSPITAL

A farm worker, Howard Skelton. employed on Mr J. Porter's farm at the Kaik, Akaroa, was attacked by a bull, and the injuries he received necessitated his removal to the Akaroa Hospital. He was badly bruised before he was rescued. Skelton is reported to be progressing favourably.

SEVERE INJURIES

FALLING TREE DRIVES SAW

INTO MAN'S LEG

BLENHEIM August 26. Severe injuries to his left leg, caused through a tree falling and driving a cross-cut saw which he was carrying into the back of his thigh, were received by G. Flower, of Canvastown, when he was engaged in bushfelling on the property of his father, Mr F. Flower, at Wakamarina, yesterday. In company with another bushman. named Hart, Flower was felling trees at a place called Big Horse Creek, at the end of the Wakamarina road. The usual procedure of chopping one side of the base of the tree and then sa\ying the other until the tree began to sway was adopted, and it was while Flower was walking away with a saw on his back that the tree suddenly split, a piece of timber catching the saw and driving it deep into his leg. His companion rendered every possible assistance, and then turned back over a distance of a mile or so to his residence at Deep Creek, and fetched his car and a gang of men. Flower had to be carried some distance on a stretcher before he could be placed.in the car, and when this was done Hart drove with all haste to Blenheim, where the injured man was admitted ttft tixe Waixau. HospitaL