MAN'S SERIOUS INJURIES
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n»M Press A.SBOci*tlon.)' ■ NEW PLYMOUTH; lastf.night-V Tailing TOft.; down a, well lie was digging at Huiuga, near Stratford, to-day, Mr. J. J. Scheuber suffered a?-fractured left kg, an injury to ail eye, ahd: severe • hock. His condition was >ebprted .by the Stratford Hospital ;td-nigHt to be serious. : . : '■ . ' : '% ] it I .'-"-', ■",';/' • >:• ' -Mr.:'Scheuber was about .to. descend the. well, on a rope operated '. by a, Windlass; His'head had not disappeared below, the ground level when the .'Windlass broko ,and;Mr. Scheuber crashed the full *?oft. to the bottom of the' shaft. ,<-. '• . .9' Help was immediately 1 :, forthcoming, but the first attempt to raise Mr. Scheuber to the surface by tho.attabhmehti'of straps to the rope was without success; Further help was sxtmmdhed, but it Was riot, till an hour after, hisi.fall,that the injured mail, suffering ihitnsc i agdny; in the shallow water of 'the.. Well, . Was brought to the ground lev"?l and burned to hospital.. .-■ V, 1 >**': ■,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 12
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162MAN'S SERIOUS INJURIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 12
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