Woman Drowned In Rescue Attempt
(New Zealand Press Association)
INVERCARGILL, Oct. 6. A woman lost her life while attempting to rescue a man who had fallen out of a dinghy in Deep Cove, Doubtful Sound, this morning. The man was also drowned. They were
Mrs Patricia Anne Blair, aged 29, wife of Andrew Blair, manager of the Doubtful Sound track hostel, and lan Richard Ryall, aged 33, married, of Portobello, Dunedin.
Mr Blair, who was in a launch in the area, pulled Mrs Blair out of the water, took her to the shore, and applied artificial resuscitation in an attempt to revive her. A radio-telephone call was sent to Invercargill airport requesting a resuscitator and a doctor from Kew Hospital was flown to the area, but
Mrs Blair was dead when he arrived. Mr Ryall’s body was found four hours later by the Bluff-Stewart Island ferry, Matai, which is in the area on survey work.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 12
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