MAN LOSES LEG
ACCIDENT ON WHARF (Her Press Association.) FOXTON, this day. E. W. Bills, a married man with six children, who was employed on the Foxtail wharf th» morning unloading cement from the Huanui, had his right leg severed below the knee when his foot jammed in the frog of a railway line while pushing a truck load to the .Harbor Board’s shed.
The trucks were on a decline, and a following truck passed over the leg. Bills and a companion were pushing between two trucks, and his companion was unable yut on the brake.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18530, 17 October 1934, Page 5
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