HARBOUR ACCIDENT

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 17

HARBOUR ACCIDENT

A SHIPWRIGHT DISABLED. Another accident has occurred in Lyttelton Harbour. One of the steam tugs, while coming down the harbour, collided with a skiff, which was being rowed by Mr Joseph Page, an employee of Lyttelton Harbour Board. It appears that the tug had a good speed up at the time and that the skiff was smashed to pieces. Page’s escape from death was' marvellous. As soon as he was seen struggling in the water, the steamer was stopped and he was picked up. When rescued his back was found to have been considerably injured by the impact. Seen at his residence, Page street, Lyttelton, Mr. Page said Dr. . Williams’ Pink Pills alone saved him from being a permanent invalid. “The shock of the accident was so great that I was in bed for nine months,” said he. “When I left my bednerves were, unstrung. I was weal:, thin, pale and so feeble that I could not get about. All the food I forced down did not strengthen me. AH my Canterbury, Lyttelton, and Christchurch friends know thao Dr Williams’ pink pills alone gave me back my health a n& strength. These pills/had done me a world of good before, when suffering from influenza, so I took them again. Of course I got the genuine N.Z. kind in boxes—not foreign substitutes in glass bottles. My appetite gradually returned and I was able to get about. Six more boxes made me a strong, healthy man. Now, although I am 60 years of age. I am more active and energetic than many men ten years younger. Mrs Page was some time ago very weak, and ill and a chronic sufferer from anaemia—but these pills soon made her bright and strong again. They are a truly wonderful remedy for all blood and nerve diseases like indigestion, neuralgia, rheumatism and sciatica. * £ l believe,” added Mr Page, “that but for this medicine I would never have got over the effects of the terrible accident in the Lyttelton Harbour. Indeed. had the collision occurred at night I have no doubt I would have been drowned.” *