CAUGHT BETWEEN TRUCKS
WATERSIDER INJURED SECOND WITHIN MONTH (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Caught between two rakes of trucks on the Motnroa wharf last night, E. Shaw, of St. Aubyn street, a waterside worker, received 'two extensive gashes to his right thigh. After attention, .the injured man was admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital. His condition to-day was satisfactory. This was the second accident within a month in which watersiders have received leg injuries by being struck by trucks. W. Lowrie was hit as he was walking to work on March 17, and his left leg had to be amputated.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 13
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102CAUGHT BETWEEN TRUCKS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 13
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