BOY’S BRAVE RESCUE
Man Saved From Drowning
By Telegraph—Press Association.
CHRISTCHURCH, March 30.
A rescue from drowning by a 14-year-old schoolboy, Pat Cooper, is to be reported to the Royal Humane Society. The boy, who attends the Christchurch Technical College, has been learning life-saving for only seven weeks but he carried out a first-class rescue at an isolated part of the AVaiinakariri River mouth where a man, caught in the outgoing tide with severe cramp, was iu grave difficulties.
When Cooper reached him the man was going down for the third time. The boy broke the man’s clutch, brought him ashore in a strong current, and resuscitated him, al) according to the text book and with complete success. The boy said nothing of the incident, which became known only when the rescued man telephoned the school.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 159, 31 March 1939, Page 8
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