MISHAP TO BISHOP
ACCIDENT ON SHIPBOARD THROWN BY HEAVY ROLL (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 6. After making a good recovery from a motor acciden: in New Zealand early this year, the Bishop of Wellington (the Right Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland). Who has returned to the Dominion after a visit to Great Britain, met with another accident on the voyage. The shin on which he was travelling was rolling heavily in mid-Atlantic. The Bishon was standing in the lounge after breakfast one morning and at the peak of one roll the ship was struck by a huge wave
The bishop slid across the . lounge and fell heavily, striking his forehead against the brass-bound open door and receiving a deep gash to the bone and having part of his left ear torn from his cheek. He was attended by the ship’s surgeon and subsequently made a good recovery.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23985, 7 December 1939, Page 11
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