FALL DOWN OLD SHAFT
. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Hokitika, December 18. A commercial traveller, Mr. H. H. Doughty, of Christchurch, while proceeding in a motor-car near Dillmans, this morning, left the ear to pick some flowers near the roadside, when he tell down an o]d shaft, eighty feet deep. Help was obtained by his companion (his mother-in-law), and Mr. Doughty was hauled to the surface by ropes. He received considerable injuries to his face, head, and back, though no bones were broken. He was taken to Westland Hospital, and is now conscious.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 12
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