Four-hour Cliff Rescue

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 14

Four-hour Cliff Rescue

(Http gsaloM Press *s«»rt«tsn) WELLINGTON, August 25. A four-hour rescue on a rugged 200 ft Wellington cliff ended at 7 o’clock tonight when a woman was taken to hospital with several broken ribs.

Mrs Celia Dodson, aged about 30, of Island Bay, was hurt when she fell about SO feet to an inaccessible shingly position on Red Bocks, near Sinclair Head, several miler along the coast from her home.

Mrs Dodson fell after fainting while walking her dog along the difftop*. The woman’s nine-year-old niece, Ingrid von Holzen, also fell when she apparently tried to get down the cliff to >eople on the beach below o seek help. The child was teen falling about 1 b.wl police and ambulance »«■ were alerted and Ingrid was quickly located and brought down the cliff { * ce end taken to hospital- She may have a lylng d hlgb sft df near a treacherous roek tilde. Ten men worked their way up the cliff wd acre** the (fide to reach Mrs Dodson. They gave her lint-aid treatment and strapped her into a itx*tchtr« Light wa* fading when the stretcher party began to make the difficult descent to the heart about 8 p.m. Spot-

lights were used to show the w*y to the rescuers. The stretcher party reached a waiting ambulance an hour after beginning the difficult climb down to the beach.