Helicopter Flies Man To Hospital
( N.Z. Press Association) HOKITIKA. March 6.
A young Forest Service officer, David Todd, aged 21, of Eastbourne. Wellington, who received a dislocated shoulder and concussion when he fell over a bluff in the rugged Whitcombe river area, 25 miles inland and south-east of HoHtika. was flown out by helicopter and admitted to Westland Hospital this morning After the accident. Ranger M O’Reilly made a threehour and a half trek out to Kowhrtirangi to notify the Forest Service in Hokitika.
A helicopter was called from Christehurrt), but darkness prevented a rescue attempt last evening.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29765, 7 March 1962, Page 14
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