ACCIDENTS
INJUEY TO THE BACK. While working alongside the steamer SwaiUey at the Jervois quay wharf yesterday, a man named Morris Franklyn, labourer, received an injury to his hack. Franklin was pulling a truck loaded with nails behind, him, and somehow the "oad ■slipped back, causing the handles to jump up and strike Franklin In the small of the back near the spine. Dr. Henry, who examined the man. stated that no bones were broken, but said that the knock was a one, and in a dangerous place. Franklin was removed to his homo in 5, Walter street. A LEG BEOKEN. A man named Samuel Charles Gibson, married, residing at 240, Taranaki street, met with an accident on the wharf yesterday. He was engaged, in landing casefruit from the Manuka, when ho got crushed between the wharf and a sling of cases, one of his legs being broken. After the ship’s surgeon bad attended Gibson on board, the sufferer ‘ was removed to the hospital.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 5
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164ACCIDENTS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 5
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