AMAZING EXPERIENCE
GIRL DRAWN-THROUGH LONG PIPE. SHOCK FOR YOUNG SWIMMER. Patricia Ramsay, a nine-year-old girl, was drawn by suction 162 ft. through a 2ft. 6in. pipe at the Thjrroul baths, Sydney. She escaped with shock and bruises. The girl, who was on holiday, was swimming as the _ baths were being emptied for cleansing and as the water was sucked into the pipe she was drawn into it head first. The pipe empties about 40ft. from the surf. The girl was carried through it so quickly that she passed over a sump box about 4ft. deep near the outlet. ~ , Norman Cowper, the baths attendant, and Charles Robinson, an N.E.S. official, gave first aid. The girl said she was drawn through the suction pipe so fast she felt she was suffocating, and she was bumped heavily against the sides of the pipe, but in less than a minute she found herself in the open again.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1943, Page 4
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153AMAZING EXPERIENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1943, Page 4
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