RESCUED FROM HARBOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 5

RESCUED FROM HARBOUR.

FERRY PASSENGER'S ESCAPE. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 7. Only the prompt action of two men employed on the ferry prevented a tragedy happening at Day’s Bay yesterday. When the steamer Cobar pulled in at the wharf shortly after 3 p.m., a middle aged lady, Mrs Wrigley, was pulled out of the water on the side of the ship away from the wharf, and she is now in a serious condition in the Wellington Hospital. Mrs Wrigley had been on the top deck for the trip across the harbour, but there is no information as to how she got into the water. Mr J. Kirk, acting-engineer of the Cobar. was the first to get to her aid. He noticed some children at the forward end of the companionway, looking down over the opposite rail of the ship, and imagining that the object of their curiosity was some unusual fish, he walked across the vessel, and looked over the side, where he saw the woman in the water, five or six yards away from the ship’s side. Without waiting to remove any clothes he dived in to rescue her. He w r as promptly assisted by Mr J. Grimes, leading seaman, and together they succeeded in bringing Mrs Wrigley ashore. She was at once conveyed to the Wellington Hospital.