FALL OVER A CLIFF

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1930, Page 20

FALL OVER A CLIFF

DISTANCE OF NEARLY 50 FEET.

ELDERLY MAN’S EXPERIENCE.

To be practically unhurt after a fall of about 50 feet over a cliff on Cape Wanbrow was the miraculous escape experienced by an aged. Oamaru resident, Mr. Walter Hollands, last week. He was found about 9 p.m. in a “pocket” halfway down a cliff near an old quarry. The police were quickly on the scene and with the assistance of a. rope, Mr. Hollands was'removed from his precarious position on the ledge ot rock to the ground below. He was immediately taken to the public hospital, where it was found that his injuries consisted ot bruises and shock. Mr. Hollands, who is 79 years of age, left his home at four o’clock in the afternoon to go for a walk. When he did not return later in the evening the] police were notified, Evidetly he had wandered in the darkness and had fallen over the cliff. _ ; . . At the spot where he fell the_ cliff is about 90ft., and, even although his fall was arrestedtate’soft.;-}his escape from serious inJury<Tfrajs little 'gh.ort louau ■ Sisi