WORKMAN INJURED
JIGGER AS AMBULANCE
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This Day.
A novel method had to be adopted to transport a man injured during clearing operations oh the railway line in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday morning. The ambulance could get no closer to the scene of the accident than the Ashhurst' : railway, station, and the men were compelled to use a motor jigger to bring the .victim out from the spot where the mishap occurred. V
■ The injured man was William Rivett, aged 23, married, railway employee, of Palmerston North. He suffered a fracture of the bone on ithe front of the forehead and a deep gash also on the forehead as a resuljt of being struck by a flying object following the firing of a charge of gelignite. His condition is serious. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 11
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