WOMAN ON PARAPET
Watchers In Suspense Standing on a narrow parapet of the Queen’s Arcade Building, Auckland, with, a sheer drop of six stories below into a light-well adjoining the back of the Dilworth Building a lightly-clad woman provided police and other spectators with a tense two hours before she elected to descend to a lower floor. The woman took up her position about 11 a.m. and remained there till approximately 1 p.m. Comparatively few people knew of Ihe incident, but a number gathered on nearby roofs and at windows to watch the woman in her precarious position. The parapet was only about 18 inches above the level of the flat roof, but the breathless spectators feared that she might fall forward into the light-well. Appeals to the woman to come down were in vain.
At one stage the woman appeared to go through a physical drill exercise. The spectators were afraid that she would over-balance, but she stood up and leaned unconcernedly against a wall of the Dilworth Building across the end of the parapet.
Baler she descended from the parapet and walked about the flat roof of the Queen’s Arcade Building. Evcnlnally, in response to entreaties, siie climbed down a ladder to the floor below and the suspense
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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210WOMAN ON PARAPET Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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