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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26980, 15 January 1949, Page 8

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RELIEF FOR INJURED MAN FLIGHT TO BACK COUNTRY

PA CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 14. Ten minutes after a report was received at the Christchurch Central Police Station to-day that a man had been seriously injured in the bush country about 40 miles from Hanmer Springs, an aircraft left the air force station at Wigram with an air force doctor. The injured man is Arthur J. Barclay, a deer culler, employed by the Department of Internal Alfail's. He received injuries when he came off the horse he was riding. One foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged some distance and trampled on. The police received a report shortly after noon that an accident had happened about 8 a.m. A Tiger Moth aircraft, piloted by Flight Lieutenant J. P. O’Donnel, and with him Flight Lieutenant R. J. Croke, assistant medical officer at Wigram, left for Ada Station. The aircraft landed in a paddock and Flight Lieutenant Croke then had to ride about two miles over difficult country to reach the injured man. The horse the doctor rode was the one from which Barclay had fallen earlier in the day. Because of Barclay’s condition he could not be brought to Christchurch by aircraft, and after he received medical attention he was placed under the care of a trained nurse, the wife of an employee at the station.