HOW A CHILD'S LIFE WAS SAVED.
NEATLY QUICKLY, UNOB- ' TRUSIVELY'
.-07 . Tejesraph.-Special Correspondent.)
■• . ' Chrfstchurch, January 27 'A,correspondent writes to the "Press" -fo record what ho describes as the nuickand neatest and most unobtrusive' caso of life-saving of which ho ever heard 'He states:
'.'-'Yesterday I saw a child fall into a deep place in the river Avon. A gentleman passing by on his bicycle jumped off his machine, ran to the bann, tuoic a header into the pool, and. fished that child out, and had it back in the arms of its terrified nursemaid almost before the latter had time- to scream, got on his bicycle and rode away in his dripping clothes as if that sort of thing was, all in. tho day's work. There wasn't, oven time for anybody but myself and tho nursemaid to notice what had happened."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 5
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