INJURED SOLDIER
Flight Home From Malaya IN.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 18. Private S. Paniora, of Hamilton, who was badly injured while serving in Malaya with the Ist Battalion of the New Zealand Regiment, arrived back in Auckland today as a stretcher case. He was flown from Chang! in a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hastings and cared for on the journey by an R.A.M.C. orderly and an R.N.Z.A.F. nursing sister. Private Paniora was hurt while swimming. He dived from a bank and struck ' is head on rocks. He was met at Whenuapai by his parents. Mr and Mrs R. Paniora, of Hokianga, and taken by ambulance to Auckland Hospital. Mr Paniora said hi son appeared better than he expected, although he was sti'l partially paralysed. Mr Paniora himself was invalided home in 1944 with a shrapnel wound in the head after taking part in the Maori Battalion’s desperate see-saw struggle to hold the railway station at Cassino.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29725, 19 January 1962, Page 10
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