ACCIDENTS FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14324, 29 September 1910, Page 3

ACCIDENTS FATALITIES.

A BUSH ACCIDENT. ’

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. ' William August -Manson, aged about 28 years, single, in. the employ of Price and Co., saw millers, Akatarawa, met with a serious accident to-day, and . grave doubts are entertained as to his recovery. He was ■ working in the bush about- one o’clock hauling logs, when two dog hooks, used for hooking timber, which is hauled by wire ropes with power- supplied by an - engine ; some Vdistance away, became unattached from ; a log to which they wore fastened. Tlio hooks struck Manson with terrific force, breaking his right- leg and fracturing his skull. Manson, who was rendered unconscious, was , carried by his; mate* on a stretcher. five .miles, .out of the bush on to the main road, where a vehicle was in waiting. Ur. Kemp' met the trap on its way to Upper Hutt, ' . and; after temporarily attending the . sufferer, ordered his removal to the Wellington Hospital. Manson- has -a ; brother and sister residing in Blen- J heim. . , '