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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 4

Well-meant advice from the crowds which gather at even the most trivial of street accidents can often be of help in dealing with the victim, but on a Tccent evening a woman of the busy-body typo was neatly “put in place,” much to the amusement of the by-standers, states the “Christchurch Star.” A young cyclist had fallen off his machine and twisted his .leg badly. A crowd gathered immediately to. watch a middle-aged man doing what he • could to make the lad comfortable. A woman pushed- her way to the front and exclaimed in a loud voice. “He doesn't know what he’s doing, he’s hurting th© boy; what’s wanted is a doctor.” The man glanced up, continued his work and remarked, quietly, “My good woman, I happen to be a doctor! ”