DEATH FROM INJURIES
FOOT TORN OFF BY WINCH [BY TELEGRAPH PHF.SS ASSOCIATION] DANXEVIRKE. Sunday
A resident of Norsewood, Mr. Joseph William Metcalfe, aged 43. married, with a family of eight children, while working with a converted lorrv on a farm at Norsewood in the hauling of logs, got. the leg of his trousers caught in a winch and, before assistance could arrive, had his right toot torn off. He died in the Dannevirko Hospital five hours later.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24100, 20 October 1941, Page 6
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