WITH INJURED MAN

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 13

WITH INJURED MAN

LAUNCH'S STORMY TRIP.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 22.

Bringing to Auckland in his launch Ocean Queen a man injured on Great Barrier Island, Mr. A. Blackwell experienced the worst trip of his fortyfive years' experience of the gulf and coast.

Mr. Blackwell left Whangapara yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock and arrived at Auckland this morning at 11 o'clock. His passenger was Mr. W. Monaghan, an employee of the Kauri Timber Co., who, while working in the bush at the back of Whangapara on Saturday afternoon, caught his thumb in. a wire and lacerated it badly. He was taken to hospital on arrival at Auckland.

As soon as the accident happened Mr. Blackwell was' communicated with at his home at Tryphena, where he owns a farm. The weather then, however, was too bad for him to attempt to leave that port, and it was not'"until yesterday afternoon that he was able to .make Whangapara.

In the meantime the injured man was made as comfortable as possible.

"It was the worst trip I ever made," Mr. Blackwell said. "Not only was there a gale blowing but it was hardly possible to see your hand in front of your face. We hs.d to steer by compass. A trip friat usually takes me six hours at most, and I have done it hundreds of times, took me eleven "liours, and even then we had to put into shelter under Coromandel Peninsula last night."