HEROIC BOY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1936, Page 8

HEROIC BOY.

SAVE' FIVE PERSONS FROM DROWNING. Within a week four children and a woman have been rescued from drowning at Carruni Beacii by Godfrey Jones, 16 years, says a Melbourne report dated January 9. Each incident occurred near the mouth of the Patterson River, and in each ease the boy had to swim into deep water. . Mrs J. Blackwood was helping several children to cross the channel near the mouth of the river. She had assisted three children, including a child of her own, to reach the sand on the other side when she overbalanced, and was carried into deep water, with a small girl, aged about 7 years. Jones ran to the pool, which he reached just in time to save Mrs Blackwood and the child, who had sunk more than once. On January 2, Jones was bathing near the mouth of the river when two small ' boys were carried seawards by the tide washing through the channel. They were quickly in difficulties in Bft. or 9ft. of water. Jones dived in and brought them one by one to the sand. On January 3 Jones was cycling home when he heard cries from the large pool beneath the Patterson River bridge. A girl who liad been carried into the pool by an incoming tide was in grave difficulties and was about io sink. Jones dived fully clothed from the.bridge and brought her ashore. Jones, who has been unemployed since lie left school, has been in the habit of bathing near the mouth of the river, and he has developed a strong swimming style.