MR. W. H. HUGHES CHEERFUL.
CONDITION FOLLOWING AEROPLANE ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Friday, 10.50 p.m. BRISBANE, June 12. The condition of Mr. W. M. Hughes, who was injured in a plane accident yesterday, is satisfactory. “If I had been a betting man I would cheerfully have given odds at 50 to one against our getting down safely,” ne observed in an interview to-day. Mr. Hughes, who is now 71, insisted on eating a three-course meal and reading a newspaper before allowing a doctor to attend to his fractured collarbone.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 June 1936, Page 5
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