ACCIDENTS
Mr. C. Hoskins, a carpenter, of 27 Aurora Street, Petone, had" two toes of his right foot severed when an axe fell blade-down wards on tnem in' the Thorndon railway yard yesterday afternoon.
Peter Haworth, a message boy, ;6f 13 Konini Road, suffered injuries to his ribs when he fell off his bicycle in Rakau Road yesterday afternoon.
Injuries to his left arm were suffered by Mr. J. Goddard, a blacksmith, of Trinity Avenue, Lower Hutt, when he was struck by a flying piece of steel while working at the Patent Slip yesterday afternoon.
The Free Ambulance took the injured persons to hospital.
Mr. George Sisson, a hawker, was knocked down by a motor-van on the main road near Porirua yesterday afternoon. He received head injuries, and the Free Ambulance took him' to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 13
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135ACCIDENTS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 13
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