ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
CHILD’S LEG AMPUTATED.
(Per United Press Association.)
Dargaville, October 12. While playing in the railway yard at Tangowahine on a trolley with her small brother, Viola Sweet, the three-year-old daughter of E. Sweet, a relief worker, met with a serious accident. The trolley backed into a Public Works locomotive with the result that she had a leg crushed badly. The little sufferer was taken to the Northern Wairoa Hospital, where the limb was amputated below the knee. She was progressing favourably this morning.
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Southland Times, Issue 21836, 13 October 1932, Page 5
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85ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Southland Times, Issue 21836, 13 October 1932, Page 5
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