MAN'S LEG BROKEN
RUNNING FROM EXPLOSION [BY TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT] GISBORNE, Friday When ho slipped on a boulder in his haste to leave the scene of blasting operations in a creek-bed yesterday afternoon, a, Public Works Department employee, Mr. William Niool, aged 58, of Boyd's Camp, suffered a fractured leg. The fuse was a short one, but fortunately Mr. Boyd was far enough away to escape harm from flying rocks alter the explosion. Tho injured man was brought to the Cook Hospital by a Public Works Department ambulance. The accident occurred about a mile beyond the Maraetaha Stream bri'»;e toward Bartletts, on the near side of Boyd's Camp, which was washed away in the disastrous flood of February 19, 1938.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 16
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