SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT.
[BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] Paeboa, Thursday. A young man named Duncan Currie, while working on a building being erected in Paeroa to-day, met with a painful accident. He was standing on come scaffolding when a portion carried away, and Currie fell on the asphalt pavement, about 20ft below. When picked up he was unconscious, and examination showed that his forehead was badly cut, and that a bone in one of his* elbows was fractured. Be was attended by Dr. Smith, and was afterwards taken down by this afternoon's train to the Thames Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13452, 31 May 1907, Page 5
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