GIRL’S COURAGE.
IN MOTOR MISHAP. WANGANUI, Nov. 30. Courage and resource to a high degree were displayed by a 16-year-old girl, Miss Thelma Durling, of Ohakune, in an accident on the Parapara road yesterday afternoon. Miss Durling was travelling to Wanganui from Ohakune on a lorry laden with wool, driven by Mr Gordon Smith, aged 21. When in the vicinity of Ivakatahi the lorry got out of control, and plunged over a precipitous bank. • Miss Durling was fortunate enough to escape serious injury, but the driver was rendered unconscious, and suffered lacerations to his arms. The girl managed to. stop a dangerous flow of blood from a wound, and get tlie injured man to the roadway. Assistance was forthcoming from settlers and Mr A. W. Allen, of Hastings, who was returning from a motor trip to Auckland.
It was Miss Durling’s intention to sit for the matriculation examination which commences in Wanganui to-morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 3
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153GIRL’S COURAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 3
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