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INJURY 'TO HAND K. G. Smith, of Sefton, injured a hand when he fell from a ladder while pruning branches at Sefton yesterday. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. BUSH WORKER FATALLY HURT (risss iasocuTiov tblcokau.) HAMILTON, December 29. Fatal injuries were suffered by a bush worker, Kerepaehi Hamilton, aged 47, married, .when a log rolled on him at Orunui, near Taupo. Both his thighs were fractured. Hamilton was admitted to the Waikato Hospital and died last night. DRIVER’S FORTUNATE ESCAPE fTHE PRESS Special Service.! WELLINGTON. December 29. Although the car he was driving smashed through several fences and then dropped into the bed of a stream in the Ngahauranga Gorge road, the driver, Isaac Lester Perry, aged 22, a soldier at Trentham Camp, escaped with a minor cut over his right eye. Mr Perry said that the car left the read through a tyre bursting.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22906, 30 December 1939, Page 10
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