SUCKED THROUGH PIPE
TTj ,i( X, GIRL BATHER’S WONDERFUL ESCAPE. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Sept. 2. While the' Torquay.Corporation Baths were 'being emptied' through, a i2in. outlet pipe for cleaning, a visitor, a 10-year-old girl, Phyllis Basten, was sucked through the pipe a distance of thirty feet into the sea, where she emerged with her bathing dress, torn off and covered with blood, hut conscious. She clung to a girl bather, and was rescued and sent to the hospital. She is not seriously injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1930, Page 5
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