NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
A boy named Dennis Nichols had a narrow escape from drowning at the railway wharf on Saturday afternoon. He was sitting on a stringer underneath the wharf alone fishing when he overbalanced himself and fell in the water. Fortunately the accident to the boy was noticed, for he could not swim. A cry was promptly raised and a man named F. Johnson, a lumper, who was coaling at a cutter alongside the wharf, pluckily leaped in the water and rescued Nichols, who was brought ashore in a dingy. Nichols had a very narrow escape indeed, for his rescuer said the boy was going down for the last time when lie got hold of him. Nichols, who said he lived in Tennyson-street, Archhill, was apparently none the worse for his sudden immersion when brought on shore.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 9 January 1899, Page 5
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