Injured skier seriously ill
The woman skier who was injured in a fall at Mount Hutt on Sunday is seriously ill in the inten sive care unit at Christchurch Hospital.
Miss Julie Standish, a schoolteacher, of 70 Purchas Street, Christchurch, was yesterday transferred from Ashburton Hospital to Christchurch Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery.
-Miss Standish suffered head injuries and a fractured pelvis when she fell several hundred metres down an icy slope on Sunday afternoon.
She had to be rescued by helicopter. The Australian woman injured in an accident on the Mount. Hutt ski-field access road last Thursday was reported in a satisfac-
tory condition in Ashburton Hospital last evening Sheryl Anne Robbins, aged 21, of Sydney suffered a broken lee when the car in which she was travelling was blown off the access road. The driver of the car. Phillip Leigh Pearson, of Queanbeyan, New South Wales, was killed in the accident. Further report, Page 2
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