BOY'S PAINFUL ORDEAL.
LEG BROKEN ON ROAD.
THREE HOURS WITHOUT AID. [bx tklsobaph.-—own cokkespondknt.] GREYMOUTH. Monday. A terrible ordeal was experienced by a young lad named Jack Burke, who, while driving a dray along Barrytown Road, had his leg caught and broken in the wheels. Unable to move, he had to lie in the blistering heat of the sun for three hours until help came. His father arrived later, and. having no appliances, prepared to convey the lad to Greymouth in a trap. The pain of such a journey was spared the lad, however, by the timely arrival of a party of motorists, which * included an ambulance man, who improvised splints from a wooden box, newspaper and canvas hose, and took him to tho hospital in the car. The patient waa little the worse for his helpless wait in .the hcatt
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 6
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141BOY'S PAINFUL ORDEAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 6
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