INJURED YOUTH TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
FOUR-HOUfi JOURNEY BY STRETCHER From Our Own Reporter
GREYMOUTH, December 28. After a four-hour journey by stretcher over several miles of rough country east of Westport, Buster Gibson, a high school boy, of Westport, who was injured yesterday afternoon, while on a goat-shooting expedition, was admitted to the Buller Hospital at Westport shortly after 8 o’clock this morning. His condition then was described as fair.
Gibson, a son of Mr and Mrs F. Gibson, of Westport, suffered a serious injury to his chest when a .22 rifle was discharged, apparently while he and two other pupils of the Westport Technical High School, Robert Warren and Edward Morrison, were sheltering from the rain in a hut at Giles creek, behind Sergeant’s Hill. He spent
the night in the hut, where he was given bfeod transfusions.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25998, 29 December 1949, Page 6
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