A HOKITIKA SENSATION.
A sensation was caused at Hokitika on Wednesday evening, when a young lady was rescued from drowning in the Hokitika river. It appears that Mr George Woods while in the vicinity of the River near the bridge was startled (says the Times) to hear cries for help coming from the direction of the river. Mr Woods was shocked to see what appeared to be the body of a woman floating towards the sea just a little distance west of the bridge. Ho at once got his oil launch and by the time lie reached the spot, only an arm was seen stretched above the water. With some difficulty he succeeded in dragging the woman into the launch. He recognised her as a young woman named Mary Hill who is employed in Mrs Woolhouse’s Occidental Hotel and he had her convoyed there. How the woman got into the water is a mystery.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 June 1909, Page 2
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154A HOKITIKA SENSATION. Greymouth Evening Star, 4 June 1909, Page 2
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