Two Maori girls taught an. impudent Gisborne youth a lesson recently. The girls were swimming in theJKaiti basin and were annoyed by offensive remarks and the throwing of small pebbles by the youth on the bank. They determined to put an en& to this molestation, and while the youth was directing his attention to one of the swimmers, the other, scrambling out of the water, unseen by the tormentor^ came along behind him, and, lifting »j|^jbodily, tumbled him into the wkt^^beiow. As he was unable to swim/ the youth found some difficulty in struggling out, but he eventually gained the bank none the worse, but a little wiser for his experience. It was a sorry looking figure that left the scene, with the derisive laughter of the swimmers ringing in his ears.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3182, 6 January 1928, Page 4
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