FINE RESCUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1938, Page 9

FINE RESCUE.

SWIMMER SAVED.

TWO GIRLS RENDER AID.

NEW LIFE LINES USED.

Telegral'll.— Own Correspondent.)

DARGAVILLE, this .lay

I sing the life lines of the recently formed Northern Wairoa Surf and Lifesaving Club, residents at Bayleys Gorge were instrumental in saving from drowning Joseph Henry Taylor,"of liargaville, who, while swimming at about low water on Saturday afternoon, was carried through the surf to the open sea. Mr. Nicholas Matieli. of Dargaville, -Miss .loan \oung. of Upper Hutt. and .Missel at Coates, third daughter of the Kt. Hon. .T. G. Coates, went to the assistance of Taylor and supported lii.n wliiltne alarm was raised. I he life line was manned by residents and was taken through the surf for more' than 3.10 yards by Mr. .T. D. McQuiiiii. manager of the Dargaville branch of the • oith Auckland Farmers* Co-operative, I-td. He transferred the belt to Mr Matich. who, after a hard battle and with the assistance or those on the beach pulla i " a ' n st the strong current, readied] the shore. Both men were exhausted ami had to be carried ashore. They were lestored by artificial respiration by Dr. •f. A. Marshall and later received attention at his beach home. A second line was taken out bv Mr. Burns, of the staff of the New" Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, to bring in Miss Young, who, though not in difficulties, was with the'aid of a lifebelt slowly propelling herself nearer the shore. TERRITORIAL KILLED. While driving a Defence Department lorry along a narrow road lietween Wai-[ tati and Port Chalmers, Otago, on Sat-' urday evening, a 11011-eommissioned officer at tlie camp or i:ie j?hird Composite Battalion wa? killed as the result of extensive head injuries. He was Sergeant Edmund Eugene Murphy, aged 2«, of 24, Mount Street. Roslvn. Dunedin. The vehicle skidded in loose shingle for about 20 yards before capsizing against a 12ft bank. Sergeant Murphy was a storeman. but had decided to enter the police force. He was a well-known Kaikorai and Otago Rugby forward, having represented Otago for the past five years. CAR OVERTURNS TWICJE. When a motor car proceeding along the Albany-Riveriicad Koad, near: Albany, yesterday afternoon, went i down a slight embankment and over-1 turned twice, one of the five passengers j in the car, Mr. Frank Hynes, aged 2(5. ' single, of 120, Ponsonby Road, suffered j severe head injuries and concussion. He | was admitted to the Auckland Hospital, j where his condition this morning had slightly improved. The driver of the car, Mr. Horace Harnell. who resides with Mr. Hynes, suffered slight head injuries, but after treatment was able to go home. CYCLIST INJURED. When he fell off a bicycle after colliding with a verandah pole at the corner of Dominion and Ewington Roads on Saturday evening, Mr. Alister McDonald Brown, of 46, Princes Avenue, Mount Roskill, suffered concussion, abrasions and a dislocated right thumb. He was taken by a St. John ambulance to the Auckland Hospital, where he was reported to be progressing favourably this morning. MOTOR CYCLIST'S FALL.. Severe head injuries were suffered by a motor cyclist, Mr. Charles Thompson, on Saturday, when he fell from his macjiine on Mount Cahill, states a Press Association message from Dunedin. The injured man, who lives at 24, Embo j Street, Kew, is in the Dunedin Hospital. His condition is fair. CAR PLUNGES INTO CREEK. A 12-year-old boy, Osmond Mulhol- > land, received minor chest injuries late yesterday afternoon when a new car 1 driven by his father, Mr. Henry Mulholland, of Paerata, failed to negotiate a bend on the Paerata-Pukekohe Road and plunged into the Paerata Creek. Mr. Mulholland, who escaped witli minor abrasions and a shaking, had only purchased the tar that day and was driving from Paerata to Pukekohe when the accident occurred. The car failed to complete a fairly sharp curve, and, missing the bridge, plunged into the creek about 10ft below. ROTORUA YOUTHS HURT. Two Rotorua youths, both aged about 20 years, were hurt when the motor cycle they were riding collided with a motor van outside the entrance to the Government gardens. Pierre Vaughan was admitted to the Rotorua Hospital suffering from concussion and leg injuries, and Alfred Ralph with a dislocated ankle and abrasions, is also an inmate. The cycle- was thrown across to the edge of the Town Square, but was not greatly damaged. RIDING MISHAP. . While schooling a horse for the Clevedon show,, which is to take place next Saturday, Mr. W. W. Ounson, a son of Sir James and Lady Ounson, of Manurewa, was thrown and suffered a fracture of one shoulder. The horse, striking a hurdle, fell on its rider. After being ( attended by Dr. G. W. Locke, of Papakura, Mr. Gunson was taken by a St. John ambulance to a private hospital. . His condition is not serious. INJURED MAN'S CONDITION. The condition of Mr. Harold Victor Griffiths, aged 30, of Te Hana, farm labourer, who was admitted to the ; Auckland hospital on Saturday suffering from concussion, severe shock and a severely lacerated leg after an accident in which his car was damaged almost beyond repair in Warkworth on Friday, had improved this morning.