ACCIDENTS
Harry Charles Willis, a motor-car salesman, aged 57, living at Riverside Drive, Lower Hutt, suffered severe shock when the car he was driving came" into collision with another car in Wakefield Street, at 8.25 o'clock last night. Crushed fingers of the left hand were suffered by A. Orton, a truck driver, of 13b Aglionby Street, Lower Hutt, when his hand was caught beneath a truck which slipped off a jack while the wheel was oeing changed. The accident occurred at 5.45 p.m. yesterday. Peter Woolff, aged 9, of -40 Darlington Road, Miramar, cut his right wrist when he pushed his hand through a glass door at his home about 5 o'clock last night.
While working in one of the wharf sheds at 3.50 p.m. yesterday Jack Smith, a fitter, of 15 Veronica Street, suffered a fractured right wrist when he fell off a ladder. In each case the injured person was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 4
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159ACCIDENTS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 4
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