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FERRY STEAMER SENSATION RESCUER’S GOOD WORK (Per Press Association) Wellington, March 8. Noticing some children looking over tlie outer side of tile ferry steamer Collar when it pulled into Day’s Bay wharf. Tlr. J. Kirk-, acting engineer, went, to them thinking they must be interested in som e fish. It was a drowning woman, however, and he promptly went overboard to tlie rescue. Leading-seaman Orrnes came to assist with a lifebuoy, and the woman, Mrs. Wrigley, a resident of Ghn/.nee street, Wellington, was got to the wharf steps. Sli e was attended to and cared for at the pavilion, and later she was removed by the ambulance to Wellington hospital, her condition being still serious. Mrs. Wrigley is middle-aged.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 8 March 1930, Page 8
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