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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 7

•U a meeting of the council of tlio Boy.il Colonial Institute, Lieutennnt-General Sir J. Bevan Edwards in the chair, the fo - lowine New Zcaliinders were elected lollows of the Institute-Mr. A. .). Enrncan. Mr. A. Kidd, ll r. J. Palmer, and Dr. r. C'opeland Savugo. Whilo working on the steamer Malnsa. which was sunk some days after a collision off Gravcsond, a diver named 1 homos had a marvellous escape from death. Thomas, who .is an experienced diver, was on the bed of the river using wires to the ve«el preparatory to her being raised. He had not been down long when to his horror he found that his air-pipn had become jammed. Ho tried in vain to get the pipe clear, and, faced with the prospect of suffocation under water, ho cut tho pine, though he was 57ft. below the -urface, since not only was his supply of air stopped, but the jamming Df the air-tube prevented free movement. Then he pulled the life-line, and Was hauled' to the. surface in an exhausted state. Before now divers have cut their air-pipes at a considerable distance below the surface, but never, it is stated, at so great a depth as this-