INJURY TO YOUTH.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) FOXTON, Dec. 2. Details concerning the accident to Douglas Borden, the 18-year-old farm hand, who was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital this week with a shattered left hand, show that ho left Mr N. K. Rollett’s farm, where ho was _ employed, early in the evoning on a rabbit snooting expedition. Ho was walking along the stop bank which skirts’ the. Manawatu River and which is very high and steep in the locality, when he slipped and fell The gun was cocked at the time and discharged, shattering the lad’s left hand. Ho made his way. back to tho farm and was taken to the Palmerston North Hospital forthwith.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 8
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116INJURY TO YOUTH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 8
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