BRAVERY OF MAORI GIRL
CHILDREN’S LIVES SAVED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, April 30. A ten-year-old Maori girl, Lily Otene, of Puha, was yesterday presented by the Mayor, Mr. Coleman, with the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for bravery. In December last the girl displayed great presence of mind in endeavouring to save the life of her young brother, whose clothing caughi alight. She extinguished the flames bj wrapping a rug around him. She ther returned to the house, which was als< on lire, and extinguished the flames probably saving the life of her sister.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 183, 1 May 1929, Page 14
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