"SAVE ME!"

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 800, 10 February 1909, Page 4

"SAVE ME!"

AN EXCITING RESCUE.

TWO MAORI WOMEN SAVE A MAN. Four young men, Percy Simcox, William Wilson, Thomas Zaohariah, and a. Maori, who went fishing at Otaki, had an exciting time. Their boat capsized in the breakers as they were landing. Wilson and the native clung to the overturned boat, and vero eventually rescued, much exhausted. Simcox swam to the shore, and succeeded in getting there after a struggle. Zachariah, who also endeavoured to swim to land, was seized > hy cramp, and was in a perilous plight. Two nluckv Maori women. Mrs A. J. Knocks and Mrs Hadfield Knocks, seem fr his predicament, commenced to swim out to him, hut were confronted with a large shark . Zachariah hv this time was very exhausted, and calling out. "Ouink. Ani. save ijip! I'm drowning!" disappeared in the surf . Disregarding the presence of the shark th«» women heroically swam en. and. divinm down. w>t. hold of Zs<"bariah and broncht him. with the help of Simcox, safely to the shore. — — i^^— — ' . Mr W. A. Kellar, Taranaki-street, " Wellington, "N.Z., writes: "There, is no question about it — Chamberlain's