GIRLS’ DILEMMA

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1932, Page 6

GIRLS’ DILEMMA

LOOKED IN BUILDING

RESCUED BY FIRE FRIGADE

' SYDNEY, May 16. Police and firemen combined forces to rescue three girls who had been inadvertently locked in a building in George Street, Sydney, one recent evening. For more than two hours the girls anxiously waited on the second floor of a darkened building to he released. Outside i n the street ja large crowd gathered and watched the efforts made to effect a rescue. A girl who is employed in the building worked back late that evening, and two friends waited with her to accompany her home. When they tried to leave the building they found Unit every door had been locked. At first they were inclined to treat the matter as a joke, but as time passed, and they realised that there was no possibility of opening the doors from I inside, the asked the ]>olice hr telephone to release them from their predicament.

The dim figures of the girls inside the building trying to open the front doors, quickly attracted a crowd. A police car. with two constables, arrived. The policemen's stentorian vocal efforts to make the girls inside hear, and tins girl’s attempts to reply, kept tlie crowd in good humour, intimately the lire brigade was summoned, and a salvage truck, manned by two firemen, hastened to the scene. They quickly ran ladders up, forced a window. and assisted the then nervous girls to negotiate the steep climb down to the roadwav.