MAN PLUNGES OVER CLIFF
Body Swept Out To Sea By Telegraph—Press Association, NEW PLYAIOUTH, April 24. A man plunged over a cliff edge at Wooleombe Terrace, New Plymouth, shortly after midday today and crashed almost 100 feet on the rocks below and was then swept out to sea by the fierce rig of the tide. The body was seen for a short while in the rough surf and then it disapepared. The man was Ernest Francis Grimmer, aged about 56 years He was for some time a patient in the New Plymouth Hospital, from which he had been discharged. It was impossible to get a boat out at the spot to search for the body, but efforts were made to drag with a rope from the shore. The man’s fall was witnessed by several New Plymouth residents who were on their way home for lunch, but none was close enough to prevent the tragedy, Avhieh occurred at a spot where the road lias been fenced off to all traffic because of the danger of the cliff as a result of frequent falls of earth into the sea.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 178, 26 April 1939, Page 6
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