FALL TO DEATH.
DUNEDIN WOMAN. Drop from Fourth Storey Into Sydney Street. horrified spectator. United Tress Association.—Copyright. (Rpceirpfl 10 a.m.) !)XK\ , this da v. flp^h S f nSal ""' f l 1 l )hm " R to instant m o H°T , 3 '"" r,h . stv window Hotel Au>t mJia occurred ]a<t «'venin ß during tho of the c-itv shfippnijj crush. The victim Mas Miss • 'imol Marc, ot Jhmedin, Xew Zealand, a<r<-d about .">(). tro'r S Hf, r' OS '"H' l ''' l f,n tlu ' tr «"< "•ok u, ( astlcrea-l, street. A -.ill Zji'iT Ht th " K ' Thcarro. apparently was tho w n 1 ' r +°"'""**• Hie screamed . ,I|<- "oman lmrtlinjr throu-h the air from a hei-ht of 120 A st ran-,, feature was that the hodv t Miss Hare overshot the verandah of the hotel. An enormous crowd gathered ' ! , tiatlie WHS brou-ht to a standstill amlMilanco men moved the hodv. I lie police ascertained that Miss Hare «as due to sail by the Awatea at 5 p.m. She arrived at the. hotel from a >Hopp.n- expedition i„ taxi, hurried upstairs 1.. minutes before t lie sailin- , . a '" l f'-" <" 1»t death without >peak in— anybody. The taxi was «a it in- to transfer her to the Awatea "hen her body fell on to the tram 1 lark.
Miss Hare booked in at the Hotel Australia on November 4. Since then e had absented herself for brief periods in order to into hospital and t'» \i*it ( anhcrra. Tlinj-p is a >trnn rr Mi-rostion that lier health was not £n( »d.
Speaking on the radiophone from the Awatea. (apt ain I>avey r ',i<l that men had 1 iccn sean-liing tlic -liip for Miss Haic. wlio-c ticket and luggage were on board. He added that when Miss Hare came t.. Sydney in the .Awatca on No\ember 4 she was most cheerful. EARNED ADMIRATION. WORK DURING EPIDEMIC. (By Telegraph.— Pr<*ss Association.) Dl X KDIN , this dav. Before she entered the profession of masseuse. .Miss Hare was a school teacher widely known throughout Otago during the infantile paralysis epidemic. Nhe did a vast amount of voluntarv work among children, and in this and other ways, earned the admiration of the. citizens. Slie received her training H t the Otago School of Massage, and was recognised as onr of the leading masseuses in Dtinedin. Her mother and two sisters reside ill this city.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9
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390FALL TO DEATH. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9
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