PLUCKY RESCUE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 April 1927, Page 5

PLUCKY RESCUE.

LAD SAVES DJR OWNING GIRL. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.} GISBORNE, April 11. A lad eleven years of age, named Sydney Huston, pluckily plunged to the rescue of Vivian Foote, a girl oi six, who fell into the Taruheru river yesterday afternoon when crossing a footbridge. The girl had sunk the second time, and had drifted some distance down stream, before she was reached, but the boy seen icy 1 her and brought her safely ashore.

The passengers on the Tutanekai on her recent trip to southern latitudes were afforded an unusual spectacle at the Antipodes. When the Tutanekai drew close inshore the stately penguin was seen in occupation by countless thousands. The birds occupied piucticailv every inch and foot of rock an earth, according to the Wellington “Evening Post,” Captain Rollons said that the birds, and also mollyhawks, were as numerous as pebbles on a shingle beach. He estimated their numbers in tens of thousands, penguins weie so closely packed gether that passengers and membeis of the ship’s crew had not an 111 C“ ground on which to walk when they landed from the boats.