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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 16

Anyone who has leaned over a balcony and swung a leg nonchalantly between the bars knows the feeling of helpless panic when the leg is suddenly and mysteriously trapped. But it is rare for such an incident to interfere with true love in the manner it did at New Plymouth the other evening. A young woman, waiting for a long-distance telephone call from her fiance at Wellington, was chatting to a friend over the balcony railing. As she talked she swung her leg . between the bars. Then abruptly the telephone bell rang. But the girl did not respond. Flurried and excited she wrenched at her leg, held painfully in a vice-like grip. Her young brother promptly took tip the receiver and repeated her message that she could not. come aud then hung up.