Hit In Face By Fish Spear
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, January 8. A 15-y ear-old schoolboy had a miraculous escape from serious injury when he was accidentally speared through the face with a fish spear, at the week-end. Today. Peter Richardson, of Elmslie road. Pinehaven, recovering in Hutt Hos-
pital where his condition wa* reported as satisfactory.
The three-pronged spear, which had been fired like an arrow from a bow, struck him in the jaw. passed through his cheek and camo out his cheek on the other side of his face.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 12
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