CAR FALLS INTO HARBOUR
OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE RESCUED BY LAUNCH DINGHY. (Per United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, December 16. A motor car fell into the harbour about 1 o’clock this morning, and the occupants, two men and two women, bad a narrow escape from serious injury. The car nearly fell on a launch which whs moored at the wharf, the vehicle striking • the stern of the launch a slanting blow ha it fell into the water. The occupants of the ear got clear as it sank, and they then clung to a rope hanging from the wharf. Their cries for assistance were heard by Mr and Mrs A. J. Niven who live on the launch Waiomo, which was anchored near at hand. On hearing the cries Mr and Mrs Niven immediately got into the Waiomo’s dinghy and rowed to w’here the distressed cries were coming from. They helped the four people into the dinghy and took them to the wharf steps. . , .* The rescued people then obtained a taxi cab and left for their The identity of the four persons is not yet known. The car is still at the bottom of the harbour and will probably be recovered by a diver and the Harbour Board’s transport punt to-morrow 1 morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22447, 17 December 1934, Page 12
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