WOMAN OVERBOARD

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1929, Page 5

WOMAN OVERBOARD

RESCUED AFTER LONG

IMMERSION

AUCKLAND, November 4

Found floating in mid-harbour in a semi-conscious condition, Miss Laurel Eitichbury, aged 21, was rescued after being over half an hour in tlie watei. Miss Stichbury was taken to the Auckland Hospital. Her condition to-night was stated to be satisfactory.

When at 11.10 a.m. the boat from Auckland reached Northcote a hat and bag were found on a seat on the lower deck. It was stated by another passenger that Miss Stichbury was on the ferry before it had reached the western tide deflector.

Miss Stichbury was first observed in the water about the middle of the harbour off Princes Wharf by a passenger on the Bayswater-Auckland ferry at about 11.45 a.m. The master immediatelv altered his course and was preparing to lower a dinghy when the woman was seen from the launch Jumbo, and the master picked her up. She was floating face upwards. She was unable to speak for some time, hut partially revived on the wtyy to hospital.

FAMOUS GUIDE. OIL-v-.10N.1X, Sept. 24. AT, Anatolo Cbuttet, a member of a distinguished family of guides and known to hundreds of visitors to Mont Blanc, the h : glmst peak in Europe, set out yesterday on a chamois shooting expedition in company with h:s father-in-law. M. Edouard B a valid, also a famous guide. They sighted chamois amid the crags and decided, before tracking them down, lo eat, a light luncheon. As M. ('outlet was laving down his loaded riilo the cartridge went off. lie collapsed at bis father-in-law's side murmuring: ‘‘l am dying.’’ In a few minutes lie was dead. A caravan of eleven guides brought bis body to Chamonix to-dav.