GAVE UP SEAT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1937, Page 7

GAVE UP SEAT

AND LOST BIS TOES/ SYDNEY. August 31. George MeMurtrie, 15, of Lithgow, is revising, in a hospital bed, his code of etiquette—particularly that section referring to young women who stand in trains. George offered his seat to a girl in a last-moving train between Redlern and Central stations on Saturday. lie was knocked from the train, and j suffered injuries to his head and arms, and part of .the toes of his right foot, which were badly crushed, had to be amputated. Th t , wheel's of. the train passed over the toe of his right shoe. “Next time there’s a girl waiting for a seat in a train, somebody else can give it to her,” said George, a patient at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. yesterday. “[ pave always been told that it pa vs to be polite, hut L m not so mho of it at the moment. “The train had left Redfern, when 1 noticed the girl standing by the door. I I gave her my seat. I “As i took her place, two men with heavy suitcases, bumped me in the , back. I “t felt myself falling. There was a frightful jar as I hit the track, and (.hat’s about all I can remember.” George’s father hurried from Lithgow at the news of his son’s injury. ; " “He got a pretty solid pair of legs, ; all rights” said ]\ir Mc.Murtrie. j “When George was little more titan 12, lie rushed into a burning house to 'em 1 his sister. “His legs were so badly burned that they thought he'd never get over it. “Helping me in my business, be has frequently had his feet run over r> v a heavily-laden lorry ; and never complained. “lie’s lucky this time, however, that, he didn’t lose his loot.”