CHILD IN DRAIN-PIPE.
difficulty in rescue.
DIGGING UP A ROADWAY.
A four-year-old girl fell into a sloping drain-pipe near her home at Atinandale, . Sydney, recently, and was trapped,, for over an hour until the road could be broken up so as to allow her to be. drawn through the opposite end of thp piping. How she got- there is not known, but far screams attracted attention, and, a party , of men were, soon at work trying to r lease her. * ii,« It was found im P oß^ child backwards, as, Thii'WSfcuerJ lv into a kneeling position. i«,.f r es'forts totherefore, had AWfcm ward getting the. other end. roa dway. - The chill breaking UP f her a dr<.ntura< v /,., was none the worse ior « . • . * -J- •'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20820, 12 March 1931, Page 11
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124CHILD IN DRAIN-PIPE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20820, 12 March 1931, Page 11
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