ACCIDENT IN BUSH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 16

ACCIDENT IN BUSH

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") BLENHEIM, This Day. Severe injuries to his left let, caused through a tree falling and driving a cross-cut saw which he was carrying into the back of his thigh, were received by Mr. G. Flower, of Canvastown, when he was engaged in bush-felling on the property of his father, Mr. F. Flower, yesterday. In company with another busliman, Mr. Flower was felling trees at a place called Big Horse Creek, at the end of the Wakamarina road. The usual procedure of chopping one side of the base of a tree and then sawing the other until the tree began to sway was adopted, and it was while Mr. Flower was walking away with the saw on his back that the tree suddenly split, a piece of timber catching the saw and driving it deep into his leg. His companion rendered every possible assistance and then hurried back over a distance of a mile or so to his residence at Deep Creek and returned with a car and a gang of men. Mr. Flower had to be carried some distance on a stretcher before he could be placed in the car, and when this was done his companion drove with all haste to Blenheim, where the injured man was admitted to the Wairau Hospital. ■