FALL ON TO ROOF
GIRL NOT INJURED INCIDENT DURING GALE ATTEMPT TO SAVE WINDOW Holding on to a window which was torn from its hinges by the gale which swept over Auckland in the early hours of yesterday morning, a maid at the residence of Mr. J. R. Kingston, St. Heliers Bay Hoad, Tamaki, was drawn by the force of the wind through the window aperture and fell on to the roof of a garage. She suffex-ed slight sihock and bruises.
The maid slept in a room on the second storey and was attempting to close the casement window of her bedroom about 2.30 o'clock when the wind pulled the window off its hinges,, the maid falling 6ft. on to the garage, which is attached to the house. The window, with the glass still intact, landed on the garage about I.oft. from her. Clad only in her night attire, the maid climbed down on to the ground and attracted the attention of the household by knocking on a door. She was confined to bed yesterday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22465, 8 July 1936, Page 12
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