The Y.M.C.4. committee of Napier would be pleased if! a-Mr Angelo would communicate with them. He was the man who worked for nearly two hours' in the ruind of the Napier Cathedral just after the first big shock, cutting through with a saw several 12in beams which were pinning down Mr P. 0. Main, who was attending Divine ser,viee when the crash came. Undeterred by the approach of the fire whieh was sweeping through the city and approaching the cathedral, Mr. Angelo bentrto with a crude tool, and had the satisfaction v of seeing Mr Main released from the four oak beams jfist in the nick of time, but not before the jjinioned victim had sustained serious head. and. internal injuries. Mr Main, who was general secretary of the j, Napier Y.M.C.A., iti at present an -in- [ mate of the Palmerston North Hos- | pital; and has' lost his memory.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 15
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