FELL THROUGH A SKYLIGHT

Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4491, 14 May 1935, Page 3

FELL THROUGH A SKYLIGHT

YOUNG AVOMAN RECEDES INJURIES.

Miss Winnie Higgs, aged nineteen years, employed at the Oxford Tearooms, Levin, was on . Saturday morning, the victim of a most unusual and painful accident, when crashing through a skylight, she fell a distance of 18 feet to the ground floor of the business premises be : low her place of employment. The unfortunate young lady was at the time engaged in cleaning the outer surface of a window opening on to a “light well” in the building, wherein she is employed. Standing on a somewhat precarious foothold, perhaps two feet above a skylight in the ceiling of the workroom of the shop occupied by Air G. Wise, she missed her footing, falling through the glass to the floor of the room below.

She was conveyed to' a private hospital where it was found that her injuries consisted of severe cuts to the arms and body, in addition to bruises and shock. She was later conveyed to the Palmerston N. Hospital bv ambulance. This accident was, to the par.cuts of the victim, particularly unfortunate in that it was only on Wednesday evening last that a small son, Reggie, was struck by a motor ear in Queen St., no serious injuries resulting, however, in this case.