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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21329, 23 November 1934, Page 18

A well-known Wellington girl was the principal figure in an episode at the departure of the Wanganclla for Sydney yesterday afternoon. The sailing had been postponed because of cargo handling, and the girl had been informed that the vessel was to go at 5 p.m., so she left the wharf to do some shopping. At 4.15 her parents on the wharf discovered that the ship was about to sail, and a search for the missing girl began. She was discovered having tea in a city emporium, and reached the wharf as the Wanganclla was moving away. The ship stopped on a frantic hail, and a rope with a loop was lowered from the deck. The girl was seated in it and hauled hand over hand up the 20-fcet side of the ship, amid handclapping from the crowd.—Press Association. A miscellaneous collection of metal scrap which has been forwarded to the Automobile Association is alleged by the sender to have been left by tramwaymen after finishing recent repair work in Rhodes street. The collection included many sharpedged pieces of rail-edging, nails, and steel pinning. It was shown to members of the general council of the association at a meeting last evening. The council decided to Christchurch Tramway Board (Mr Frank Thompson), drawing his attention to the collection.