UNDER AN OVERTURNED MOTOR CAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9811, 12 June 1914, Page 5

UNDER AN OVERTURNED MOTOR CAR.

TWO MAORIS DISCOVERED JUST IN TIME. A PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. (Pm Psiwa Association.) WELLINGTON. June 12. Uno of the most providential escapes from death that could well be imagined occurred this evening in a lonelv part of Avails Bay A motor-car turned bottom uppermost in the water a little way past tie i atent blip was the alarming sight that met the gaze of a passer-by who had »ii * l )rolimina, T crash about six o clock. The man, whose namo was not ascertainable last night, waded in and discovered a man and a woman in the water under the overturned car. He rescued the couple, who proved to bo a Maori and his Mr and Mrs Ngatuere, who reside at Coutts street, Kilbirnie, whither they were, proceeding when tho mishap occurred. The woman whs in a semiconscious condition, and Dr Elliott was summoned. He found that both were suffering from shock and from their immersion in tho water They wero given first aid and were subsequently conveyed to their home. Had it not been for the fact that a man happened to be passing alon- tho road the Maoris would most certainly have been drowned, as there is only one house in tho immediate vicinity and the accident would probably have been unnoticed until it was takes place at tho firm's rooms, June 11th, too late to savo them.