PROMPT AND BRAVE RESCUE

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 8

PROMPT AND BRAVE RESCUE

SMART WORK BY BOY [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 8. A smart rescue from drowning in the Hurt River was effected on Wednesday afternoon by Gilbert Daniel, of Lower Hurt. Daniel was one of a party who were swimming just below the Melling bridge, close to which there is a deep hole, and the river being in flood the current was running rapidly. The party had left the river and gone up the bank to some bushes to dress, when wild calls for help reached their ears. Daniel, who is fifteen years of age, dashed into the river, where a boy named Maurice Dawson, aged eleven years, and not able to swim, was vainly struggling in a deep hole. Dawson disappeared after his final call for help, hut fortunately he came to the surface in an unconscious condition in time for Daniel to seize him before he was swept down the river. Daniel, who refuses to say anything about the incident, stating he did nothing out of'the ordinary, had learnt life-saving and knew exactly how to handle the boy, whom he brought safely ashore, where he recovered consciousugss. Another swimmer, Miss Paton, also plunged into the rescue, but being higher up the river than tho boy who was being swept away by the current, did not reach him before he came opposite Daniel. The boy was taken home, and is little the worse for his experience. He had been riding a small pony, which he had urged into deep water, and was swept off its hack by tho current.