BOY'S BRAVERY
RESCUE 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 carrie.- out a first-class rescue at an isolated part of the Waimakariri River mouth where a man, caught in the outgoing tide with severe cramp, was in 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, all according to the text bo_l. 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1939, Page 15
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