A young married woman had a remarkable inscape from serious injury by a fall through a skylight in Gloucester Street, Christchurch (relates the “Sum”). She went out on to the roof of a l.ean-tp at the back of the building to hang out some washing. While busy with the clothes glass gave way beneath her, and she stepped back on the skylight. She ifell. through the gap until her elbows' met, the steel sash j bars on either side of the frame. Sih's. remained wedged in the framework until men from a workshop below came up and extricated her. .It was found that she had suffered nothing worse than a few scratches upon her arms and hands, and some shock.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4486, 1 November 1922, Page 1
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