REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
BABY 15 MINUTES IN SEA. GISBORNE, Aug. 1. Though washed in and out of the sea by successive waves and pounded by heavy seas, Stephen Vautier, aged IS months, son of Air and Mrs W. Vantier. Wainui, suffered no apparent ill-effects. When the child was missed an immediate search was made by the mother, but since it was unusual for him to go near the beach it was some time before she looked in that direction. Finally she saw the child left high and dry by a recoding wave, and she reached him in time to hold him up while another wave swirled about her to a depth of 2ft or 3ft. Residents of the locality had watched an object thrown about by the sea for the best part of a quarter of ail hour without realising that it was a little boy.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 6
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