TALLY CLERK LOSES LEG
PALL BENEATH TRUCKS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 7. Whilst tallying cargo from the Northumberland at Port Chalmers this afternoon, Hugh George Smith, a clerk employed by the New Zealand Shipping Company, was knocked under a rake of trucks being shunted along the wharf and received injuries necessitating his removal to the hospital, where his right leg was amputated. He has been placed on the dangerously ill list.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 8 January 1931, Page 6
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