FALL OVER HIGH CLIFF
TRAIWPERS’ NARROW ESCAPE (Special to Times) HASTINGS, Sunday While tramping on the Tukitiki Hills yesterday Miss Margaret Tacon, aged 20, and her brother Richard, aged 22, of Hastings, fell over a cliff 80 feet high. They were both injured, but not seriously, though their companions considered they had miraculous escapes from death. 'Miss Tacon slipped while the party was tramping over open country, which fell away steeply into a broken gully. As she fell her brother leaped forward and grasped an arm. In turn, ho lost his fooling, and both shot out over the lip of the precipice.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 9
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102FALL OVER HIGH CLIFF Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 9
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