Fire and Emergency say they had to cut part of the fence to free the man.

He was taken to Middlemore to have the rest of the fence removed from his body.

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05 Feb: A second person has died in Queensland - which is bracing for more flooding

05 Feb: The worker who was critically injured in a North Canterbury incident, was a contractor working on an Environment Canterbury-owned forestry block

05 Feb: A person is seriously injured, and another is being spoken to by police, after an assault at a Queenstown bar

04 Feb: Police are responding to a sudden death in Auckland's Papatoetoe

04 Feb: South Auckland Police have arrested three people and impounded four vehicles involved in a funeral procession -- for alleged dangerous driving

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