A Rescue Feat.

The Napier Technical College, which is situated close to the Railway Workshops, was observed to have collapsed and several of the Railway employees, headed by Mr. A. G. Foster, Railway Locomotive Foreman, rushed over and rescued several boys from amongst the ruins. As it was manifestly impossible to remove sufficient of the debris in time to save those buried beneath it, the method adopted was to listen carefully for cries or groans that would locate the boys, and then work with the utmost haste to uncover them. One lad was held under fallen timbers and brick-work some twelve feet from the edge of the pile, but luckily a narrow tunnel had been formed by the fallen masonry and by using great force the rescuers were able to release him from the jammed timbers.

With the exception of those officers whose attention at the railway station was absolutely indispensable the remainder of the Railway staff assisted in the urgent work of rescue.