ACCIDENTS
Frank Revvel, schoolboy, 20 Mantell Street, Seatoun, suffered head injuries and shock when the bicycle he was riding struck a kerb at the corner of Brougham and Paterson Streets, at 10.45 a.m. today.
Mr. R. Boyd, railway surfaceman, was struck by an electric train while working in a tunnel on the Johnsonville line yesterday afternoon and suffered head injuries and concussion.
Colleen McFarlane, Paparangi Road, Johnsonvttle, suffered severe concussion and injuries to her left leg, face, and hands when a bicycle she was riding was involved in a collision with a motor-car in Paparangi Road at 7.30 p.m. yesterday.
The Free /Ambulance took the injured persons to hospital.
When five attendants at the New York Aquarium were trying to weigh a torpedo ray they received from the fish a 200-volt electric shock which temporarily paralysed them,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 9
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137ACCIDENTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 9
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