A WOMEN’S PERIL.
SAVED BY BRIAN McCLEARY. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH", last night. Whilst standing on a concrete embankment on a roadway about six miles on the Culverd-en side of the first tunnel on the Cheviot road on Sunday, three women, Mrs McCleary (2). and Mrs Surridge, were washed into the sea, and Brian McCleary, the All-Black and well-known boxer, was responsible for saving the life of Mrs Surridge, whilst the other woman were able to scramble ashore themselves. The women were, with a party of Culverden footballers, who were returning from Kaikonra. At the spot mentioned the road was found to be completely washed away, and the part’ were forced to leav’d the car. The concrete embankment on which the women were, standing was washed from undei their feet and they had a narrow escape from death. Mrs Surridge was swept away bv a huge wave, but MeC’learv, jumping into the sea, was able to reach her and bring heir back to the road. The washout is half a chain in length, and the whole width of the road is washed away. The inland road is the only passable route for any kind of heavy vehicular traffic.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 6
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198A WOMEN’S PERIL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 6
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