LADS GALLANT ACTION
(B* TEUGBAPH— PRESS ASSOCIAtIOH.) WAIHI, 'This Day. In connection with the drowning of the boy Carr, a story of a gallant action of Walter Ormsby, aged seventeen, was told at inquest to-day. It appears that two" children were left in a rapidly* drifting puht from which the deceased had jumped, and would have been swirled over a dam a few chains down stream into a deep whirlpool below had not Ormsby promptly rushed to the bank and dived in with his clothes on. He swam to the punt and got it to the bank.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 13, 15 July 1915, Page 8
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97LADS GALLANT ACTION Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 13, 15 July 1915, Page 8
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