YOUTH FALLS OVER BANK.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1934, Page 3

YOUTH FALLS OVER BANK.

SERIOUS INJURIES SUSTAINED ■Gordon Tweedale, aged 15 years, of Worcester Street, Palmerston North, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when he fell over 70 feet from a bank at Cliff road. He was playing with other youths at the time when he slipped over the precipice and fell to the metal on the riverbed below.

A favourite spot for picnickers and children, Cliff road is on the Fitzherbert side of the Manawatu river and is a portion of the old road to Pahiatua. It overlooks the Hokowhitu golf course. The river, sweeping away from the town side, however, has undermined the road and a cliff was formed, this being fenced off. It was from a bank bordering the old road that the unfortunate boy fell, landing on his back. The Free Ambulance was summoned at 3 o’clock and was promptly on the scene but it was then found that the lad would have to be brought out to the Aokauterc road. He was still conscious while a stretcher was improvised, the ambulance-men then carrying the patient approximate!}’ four miles to the road where the machine was waiting Tweedale was-rushed to Dr. King ami then to hospital, his condition last evening being reported as serious.