FELL DOWN BANK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 3

FELL DOWN BANK.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

WOMAN AT WAIHEKE.

LANDED IN DEEP POOL.

A married woman, Mrs. Julia Mundy, aged 42, had a most remarkable escape from serious injury, perhaps death, when she fell down a 50ft precipitous bank, with a further drop into a 20ft pool, at Waiheke Island yesterday morning. Mrs. Mundy,' who resides at 34, Prospect Terrace, Ponsonby, suffered a scalp wound, a deep cut over one eye, and in the left leg, extensive bruises and shock. The injured woman was one of a party of four who visited Matiatia by the steamer Duchess. The others in the party were her husband, Mr. J. li. Mundy, an employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, ill'. E. Wilkinson and Miss G. Hill. The accident occurred in a small bay between Matiatia and Oneroa, called Owhanaki Bay, where she and her husband have frequently gone for fishing. At the time of Mrs. Mundv's fall, the party were climbing down a bank to the pool in which Mrs. Mundy fell. This pool, which was full at the time, is dry at low water. She lost her footing on the dry grass, and was unable to check her slide. She remained conscious practically all the time, and when she reached the water she was able, though dazed, to cling to the rocks, against which she was washed by the tide flowing into the pool, which had 15ft of water in it.

Mr. Mundy 6aid to-day that when he had reached the bottom, he saw his wife lying face downwards in the pool, but by the time of his arrival at the pool she had righted herself and was clinging to the rock. After he had taken her from the water and made her comfortable, he went for help to Matiatia, the other two remaining to take care of his wife. A launch, the Atatu, owned by Mr. L. M. Nathan, of Auckland, was within hailing distance, and, when Mr. Mundy had explained what had happened, Mr. Nathan immediately took the boat around the coast to the locality. "It was with some trouble that we got my wife into the dinghy and on to the launch, where she was given every care and attention by Mr. Nathan and party," said Mr. Mundy. "Mr. Nathan, realising my wife's condition, decided to go straight to Auckland" On arrival in Auckland she was taken by the St. John Ambulance to the Auckland Hospital, where she was admitted at 5 o'clock, the accident having happened about noon. It was stated by the hospital authorities to-day that Mrs. Mundy's condition was satisfactory.