FARMER'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL
PINNED BENEATH TRACTOR. Electric Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, Last NightJohn Walsh, junr., a tanner, o 1 Kaptika South, was udini ted to a private hospital to-day suffering from internal injuries, and exposure. It appears that AA’elsli was d iving a tractor across some swampy ground, with a plough ittached. on Monday afternoon, when the wheels bogged. AA'elsh increased the.p wer, with the result that the factor wound itself over backwards, paring him on the soft wet ground. A man in a gig. passing nearly at midnight, heard < l ies, and ill-cover-ed Welsh pinned in a toot ot water, his head iust showing. Ihe alarm was immediately given, but owing to the weight of the tractor, three hours was taken to extricate him. AVtelsh is in a precarious condition.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10294, 21 July 1926, Page 5
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130FARMER'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10294, 21 July 1926, Page 5
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