TELEGRAPH MESSENGER’S DARING FEAT
(P.A.) Wellington, Sept. 9. A young Post and Telegraph messenger, Miss J. Simpson, made a name for herself when she climbed to the top of the rigging ot a mainmast of a four-masted barque, the Pamir, berthed at King’s Wharf, Wellington. “I wonder what it would feel like to be up there ?” she remarked, on going aboard to deliver a telegram. “Why don’t you go up and find out?” jokingly chaffed some of the crew. Miss Simpson accepted the challenge and whipped up the ratings until she reached very near to the top of the mainmast. As handily as she had gone aloft, she descended to the deck. The daring feat was cheered by the onlookers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 225, 22 September 1945, Page 2
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