WOMAN RESCUED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 915, 7 March 1930, Page 13

WOMAN RESCUED

FALL INTO HARBOUR FROM FERRY SAVED BY TWO MEN I‘rcs* Assort at ion WELLINGTON, Today Only the prompt action of two men employed on a ferry steamer prt vented a tragedy at Day s Bay yesterday. | When the steamer Cobar pulled in at the wharf shortly after 3 p.m . a middle-aged woman, Mrs. W rig ley. was pulled out of the water on the side of the ship away from tlm wharf and now lies in a serious condition in the Wellington Hospital. Mrs. Wrigley had been on the top deck for the trip across the harbour, but there is no information as to how she got into tlio water. Mr. J. Kirk, acting-engineer of tlio Cobar, was the first to go to her aid. j He noticed some children at the fori ward end of the companionway lookJ ing down over the opposite rail of j the ship. Imagining the object of ! their curiosity to be some unusual fish he walked across the deck and ! looked over the side. He saw a woman in the water, five or six yards away from the ship's side. Without waiting to remove any clothes lie dived in to rescue her. He was promptly assisted by Mr. J. Grimes, leading seaman, and together they succeeded in bringing Mrs. Wrigley ashore. She was at oucu taken to the Wellington Hospital.

At a church Christmas market at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, a woman | bought from a stall of odds and ends ! a brooch which she lost 15 years ago.