MINER'S ORDEAL
84 MILES TO HOSPITAL
SEVERE BACK INJURIES
v (By Telegraph—Presß. Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
Injured in a fall at the White Rock Coal Mine, 27 miles up the Mokau River at 5.30 p.m. yesterday, John Joseph Spiers, aged 28, single, had to be taken twelve miles in a rowing boat, two miles in a launch and 70 miles in the district nurse's car to the New Plymouth Hospital, where he arrived at midnight.
Spiers, whose home is in Huntly, severely injured his spine. A rock fell away from the mine roof without warning and struck him in the back. Another fall started but the injured man was removed in time by Mr. H. Jones, part owner of the mine. Mr. Jones carried Spiers to the river and placed him in a boat to take him twelve miles before the launch was met.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 11
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