COMMENDABLE ACTION.
WOMEN’S PRESENCE OF MIND. (Bv Telegraph—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 20. The presence of mind of two ladies, Mesdames Walker and Pilkington, was the moans of rescuing a small boy who was in difficulties in a boat on the Waioeka River, at Opotiki. Mrs Walker, who lives near the river, heard screams and, running to the river bank, saw the boy, Raymond Fisher, aged 11, standing up in the boat, which was in midstream and floating down toward the bar. She informed Mrs Pilkington, who drove her car to the police station and secured the services of Constable Breed, who took another boat and pulled out, bringing the boy and the boat to the shore. The boy had pulled up the anchor and, there being no oars, was ,of course helpless. Had Mrs AValker not called out to him to sit down he would probably have upset the boat and been drowned, as he was unable to swim.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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