HOKITIKA BOY RECEIVES SEVERE INJURY TO EYE
While making his way home from Sunday School along the main platform of the railway station at Hokitika on Sunday morning, a 10-year-old boy, M. Nicholson, a son of Mr and Mrs R. Nicholson, of Beach road, Hokitika, received a severe injury to an eye. The cause of the accident is not known but it is thought that he was struck by a pellet from a “shanghai” or an air gun. He was accompanied by his nine-year-old sister at the time of the accident. Both children were proceeding along the station platform when they heard a noise like something being hit, then suddenly the boy stopped and blood began to flow from his eye. Another lad, on a paper round took the boy home to his parents. He received attention from Dr D. D. Lyness and was later admitted to the Westland Hospital. It is not yet known whether the boy will require an eye specialist’s attention.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1949, Page 4
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