INJURED MAN’S ORDEAL
LAUNCH TRIP OF 17 MILES. DOOR USED AS A STRETCHER. A journey by launch for 17 miles across the Manukau Harbour was made on Saturday morning to assist in conveying an injured man to the Auckland Hospital (states the “New Zealand Herald.”) Tho man, Mr Archibald Suttic, aged 60, married, of 64, Symonds street, Onehunga, was thrown from a gig near Graham’s Beach, on the Awhitu side of the harbour, and was crushed beneath tho conveyance. He suffered from shock and a fracture of the right leg. The accident occurred when Mr Suttie made room for two motor-cars to pass the vehicle. Mrs Suttie was with him. but she was thrown cl°ar when the vehicle capsized. A door was nsed as a stretcher in carrying the injured man abont two miles to Graham’s Beach, where a launch was taken for Onehunga. There the St. John Ambulance was waiting to take Mr Suttie to hospital. Mr Suttie’s condition was satisfactory on Sunday evening.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 29 December 1931, Page 9
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165INJURED MAN’S ORDEAL Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 29 December 1931, Page 9
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