A BRAVE GIRL.
[Special the Star.] INVERCARGILL, April 20. A plucky act received recognition at the Gladstone School yesterday, when Elsie Courts, aged eleven, was presented with an inscribed gold locket and a chain on behalf of the mother of a two-year-old baby she had rescued from drowning. The incident occurred at Otatara, on the banks of the Oreti River, where the baby strayed into the water. The elder girl rushed into the water and managed to grasp the child before it got into the current, when the mother rescued both rescuer and rescued. The Rev. Wm. Swinburne made the presentation.
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Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 4
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101A BRAVE GIRL. Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 4
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