A PLUCKY DEED.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18353, 10 March 1920, Page 6

A PLUCKY DEED.

LITrLE GIRL’S NARROW ESCAPE. A plucky act on the part of a railway flag-signaller resulted in the saving of the life of a little girl named Margaret Hay, at the Wilson’s Road crossing, Limvood, yesterday morning. The child was on her way to attend the Woolston school picnic, and she attempted to cross the line by means of the cattle-stop as the express train, from Lyttelton was approaching, To negotiate anv of these “stops’ is a difficult proceeding at Any time;and she fell and was caught between tho bars. The man on duty in the signal box noticed the mishap and immediately put the signals against the incoming train, but it was apparent that tlie engine had too much speed on to pull fin in the required distance, and so he called out to the flagman. The latter—Mr _J. Phair, who was acting in a relieving capacity at the time —dashed across to where the little girl was, find at the imminent risk of his own life removed her tcTsafety, the train being'but a few yards from the little one when she was saved.