GIRL LOSES BOTH FEET
SAD ACCIDENT WITH HAYREAPER Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 11. Betty Leonard, a girl 8 years old, had both her feet cut off at the ankles yesterday afternoon by a hay mower, which was being worked* on the farm of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lennard, at Waihou, near Te Aroha. The child had ridden her pony out to a paddock where harvesting was proceeding. She hitched the pony to a fence, and walked to a spot where the mower was being driven over a rather difficult stretch alongside a ditch. The man in charge of the mower, giving the machine all his attention, did not notice the approach of the child. The girl was unaware- of the danger, and before the driver realised it the blade had cut through her ankles. The child was immediately rushed to a private hospital, where she was operated on. It is reported that she is making satisfactory. progress.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 92, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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