PAINFUL BUSH ACCIDENT

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10572, 29 September 1910, Page 4

PAINFUL BUSH ACCIDENT

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 28. William August Manson, aged about V-i voars, single, in the employ of Price ■••!''! Co., .ia;viniilcr.s. .Akafnrawa, met with a serious accident to-day, and grave doubts are entertained as to his recovery. He was working in the bush •bout 1 o'clock hauling logs is ben two doghooks used for hooking the- timber, which is hauled by wire ropes with power supplied by an engine some distune: 1 away, became unattached from a log to which they were fastened. Tho hooks struck Manson with terrific force, breaking his right leg •>iid fracturing his skull. Manson, who was rond'-rcd unconscious, was carried by bis ouuos on a stretcher """„ "-i 1 ":: <•:•! of the bush on to the "afu load, where a vehicle was in waitng. Dr Ivemp met the trap on its vay to the Upper Hutt, and after teni••uarily at tending to the sufferer ordered his removal to the. Wellington Hospital. Manson has a brother and sister residing in Blenheim.