HARBOUR ACCIDENT
A SHIPWRIGHT DISABLED,
Another accident has occurred in Lyttelton Harbour. One of the steam tugs, while coming down the harbour, collided with a skiff, which was being rowed by Mr Joseph Page, an employee of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. It appears that the tug •had a good speed up at the time, and that the skiff was smashed to pieces. Page's escape from death was marvellous. As soon as he was seen struggbng in the water the steamer was stopped and he was picked up. When rescued his back was found to have been considerably injured by the impact. Seen at his residence, Page-street, Lyttelton, Mr Page said Dr Williams' pink pills alone saved him from being a permanent invalid. "The shock of the accident was so great that I was in bed for nine months," said he. "When I left my bed my nerves were unstrung. I was weak, thin, pale and so feeble that I could not get about. All tbe food I forced down did not strengthen me. All my Canterbury, Lyttelton and Christchurch friends know that Dr Williams' pink pills alone gave me back my health and strength. These pills had done me a world of good before, when suffering from influenza, so I took them again. Of course I got the genuine New Zealand kind in boxes —not foreign substitutes in glass bottles. My appetite gradually returned, and I was able to get about. Six more boxes made me a strong, healthy man. Now, although lam 60 years of age, I am more active and energetic than many men ten years younger. Mrs Page was sometime ago very weak and ill and a chronic sufferer from anaemia—'but these pills soon made her bright and strong again. They are a truly wonderful remedy for all blood and nerve diseases like indigestion , neuralgia, rheumatism, and sciatica. "I believe," added Mr Page, "that but for this medicine I would never have got over the effects of the terrible accident in the Lyttelton Harbour. Indeed, had the collison occurred at night I have no doubt I would have been drowned."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1902, Page 3
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