FALL INTO HARBOUR
Mishap At Devonport Wharf By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 30. Stepping out of a motor-car which had. been drawn up in the outside traffic lane on the Devonport vehicular wharf, a young man, Mr. Marshall St. John Walsh, Devonport, stumbled ami fell into the harbour. The driver of the car and a ticket collector used a lifebelt on the wharf to pull him out of the water. Mr. Walsh, was being driven to the wharf to catch the passenger ferry. The car arrived at a wharf about two minutes before the ferry was due to leave and pulled up opposite the vehicular ferry ticket box. The driver of the ear saw Mr. Walsh open the door and step out, and then found he had ’disappeared. Almost at once he hoard a loud splash, and jumping out, discovered Mr. Walsh struggling in the harbour. He was rescued without difficulty. Apart from suffering from slight shock he was none the worse tor his fall and was able to be taken home.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 13
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