PINNED UNDER TRAILER
YOUTH HURT SERIOUSLY
AMPUTATION OF ARM
( Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day
Pinned under :i load of kauri logs after a motor trailer had capsized at Glen Eden this morning, Daniel Baker, aged 17 years, a Maori, ot: New Lynn, was rushed to Ihe hospital in his own truck and immediately operated on. An arm was amputated. Baker also received serious head injuries and concussion. His condition is serious.
Baker is employed by his Inlbcr ns a cartage contractor and was driving a lorry and trailer loaded with logs. He met; another truck on the Vaikauku road. There was little room for it lie trucks to puss and when the wheel of Baker 's I ruck left Hie crown of the road the trailer capsized and pinned him underneath.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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