BOYS INJURED IN EXPLOSION
ACCIDENT IN OLD BOMB DUMP
ARMY ISSUES WARNING
(New Zealand Press Association) ... . AUCKLAND, April 3. After two boys had been injured when a small American bomb exploded in an old United States Armv ammunition dump in Hill road Manurewa, on Saturday, the Army informed the police that the area was very, very dangerous,” and that the public should be kept away. The injured boys are:— Gary Cook, aged 16, who received shrapnel wounds and eye injuries; and David Trower, aged w l4.
Cook was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where an emergency operation was performed on his left eye Trower was sent home after treatin the Middlemore Hospital Tne Army said the area should ’not be probed, and that the dump should be covered oyer by a bulldozer after a charge had been set oft.
THREE INJURED AT RODEO (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH. April 3. Three men were treated at the Patea Hospital for injuries suffered m a steer-riding contest at a rodeo at Kakaramea on Saturday. James Olsen, aged 22. of Napier, broke his right ankle. He was discharged from hospital today. , B , riai ?. Lane . aged 27, of Mangaweka broke his nose, and had his right ear lacerated. The hospital reported his condition as satisfactory tonight Hugh Bourn, aged 17, of Patea, broke his jaw. He was treated as an outpatient at the hospital. INJURED GIRL DIES (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, April 3 Fiona Helen McKenzie, aged seven, of Green Bush. Fortrose, who was admitted to the Southland Hospital on March 27 with injuries suffered when she was run over by a tractor died today. The girl had a severe fracture of the skull, and during the last week she developed pneumonia. MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURED After he had been involved in a collision with a car at the intersection of Croydon and King street, Sydenham, a motor-cyclist, Ralph Hines, of 90 Fisher avenue, was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital on Saturday at 6.30 p.m. His condition is satisfactory.
BOYS INJURED IN EXPLOSION
Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27625, 4 April 1955, Page 10
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