MAN’S SUDDEN DEATH
HEROIC RESCUE RECALLED
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, last night
While riding in a tranicar on Saturday afternoon, Mr Thomas Robert MacFerson, 62, of Mt. Eden, collapsed. An ambulance was summoned, but Mr MacFerson died on the way to hospital. Mr MacFerson’s death recalls his gallant rescue of an entrapped man during the disastrous 'Strand Arcade fire on August 16, 1909. Mr MacFerson climbed up the fire escape of art adjacent building, thence along perilous ledges to the roof of the burning arcade, and dragged the victim to safety. Mr MacFerson was awarded the Stepd gold medal by the Royal Humane Society for this brave act. «
Mr MacFerson was a single man, and was engaged as an auctioneer up to the day of his death.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 8
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