WONDERFUL ESCAPE
CAR DRIVEN INTO HARBOUR. * AUCKLAND, July 27. There wa s a remarkab.e escape from) drowning in the harbour yest-c.day I af tern-ton. James Arthur Briggs, aged 45 of < Thames, driving a baby ear, attempt | <d to drive on the vehicular ferry, be-1 ing unde the impressi n that one at fhp crew beckoned h in on. | The ferry was just moving off ami the car plunged into the harbour.' Br'ggs, fortunately, took a deep breath, and began to struggle out f i the side window. One leg was caught | between the brake and the gear lever, > but he wrenched it OU L On reaching the surface, he swam to I the wharf, and was made comfortable ! in the engine-r >om of the ferry.
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Grey River Argus, 28 July 1931, Page 3
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