CAUGHT BY THE TIDE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 10

CAUGHT BY THE TIDE

WOMAN'S TRYING EXPERIENCE

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. Drenched by flying spray, a woman maintained a precarious hold on -i ledge of rock ou a point near Lady 4 Bay for some hours on' Sunday before she was rescued.

The woman went to the beach and decided to walk round a point She was fascinated by the waves, which tho gale was hurling on the rocks, and tamed to watch tho spectacle. It was the flood tide, and her next discovery was that both advance and retreat were .if- v Eem°ving her shoes and stockings she scrambled on to a ledge as the tide, an exceptionally big tide with the full force of the wind LSI it, rose higher. Then her position became precarious. The ledge was in sight of Lady's Bay Beach,Utyesterdes 7erteT mg beach quite bvM + t E' %St Heliers ' a<*°*Panied by three children, went to the beach the desire of tho children being to see the waves breaking on the rocks. One was a little girl, who caught sight of the woman clinging to the edgf 31e °r the distant end of the beach The woman was waving a hand to attract attention. Mr. Port made his way along the beach, waded waist deep to he ledge and carried the woman to the beach. She was considerably c™ waKJf aft6r a leSt *»

Although there was no gre»t det)tb of water near the ledge, there wafa fierce backwash of broken water Fortunately the marooned woman kept her head It was equally fortunate that her plight was discovered before the tide rose to its full height. She stated hat she could not have held on much