FOUR WOODEN LEGS
A London orthopaedic specialist, who was asked to travel 8000 miles to India to fit special artificial legs to an Indian general at Nepal recently, learned that the four legs be made have been given to the wives of the general, who has since died. Mr. J. Wilson, the limbmaker, was paid a four-figure sum for the fittings in addition to a first-class passage out and back. £5 a day expenses, and a three months’ tour The legs were made to replace the right leg and to enable the general to go walking. riding, climbing and carry out his devotional ' exerciser
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19340629.2.109
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 152, 29 June 1934, Page 10
Word Count
104FOUR WOODEN LEGS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 152, 29 June 1934, Page 10
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.