CHILD'S FEET CUT OFF
ACCIDENT ON FARM
(By Telograph.) •■'■■. (Special to "The Evening Post.") _ .. AUCKLAND, This Day. : Betty Lennard,' a girl eight" years old, had both her feet cut off at the ankles .on Thursday 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. Tho child had ridden her pony out to a paddock whore harvesting was proceeding. She hitched the pony to a fenco, and walked to .'a epot 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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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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