WOMAN ON PARAPET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 11

WOMAN ON PARAPET

SIX FLOORS ABOVirGROUND Standing on a narrow parapet of the Queen's Arcade building. Auckland, with a sheer drop of six storeys below into a lightvvell adjoining the back of the Dilworth building, a lightly-clad woman provided police and other spectators with a tense two hours on Friday, before she elected to descend to a lower floor. Comparatively few people knew of the incident, but a number gathered on near by roofs and at windows to watch the woman in her precarious position. The parapet was only about 18in. above the level of the flat rcof. but the breathless spectators feared that she might fall forward, into .the light-well. Appeals to the woman', to come down were in vain. At one stage the woman appeared to go through a physical' drill exercise. The spectators were afraid "that she would over-balance but she stooir up and leaned -unconcernedly agains; a wall of the Dilworth building across the end of the parapet. ..,' "" ■ .\\ i. Later site descended from the parapet and walked about the Hat ropf of the Queen's Arcade?building. Eventually, iti response to entreaties, -<;ho climbed down a ladder to the' floor below and the suspense ended.