Tongan's Narrow Escape
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From Our Own Correspondent
Nukualofa, Nov. 4.
ONE of the two main masts of the Nukualofa wireless station collapsed recently while a Tongan workman was doing repairs to it.
The workman was working half-way up the mast, at about 60 feet, when he felt it giving way. He quickly loosened the rope with which he had been hauled up. and raced madly down just before it fell to the ground.
Fortunately he got clear of the mast and its tangled stays, and he suffered only slight shock.
It was later discovered that the mast had rotted through at its base.