SAVED HER FATHER'S LIFE
GIRL'S HEROIC. STRUGGLE. (t'REsa Association. —Copyright.} FREMANTLE, Feb. 4. At a meeting of citizens Miss Florrie Waters was presented with a "purse. _of sovereigns, and also with £lO subscribed by Sydney citizens. (In December last, Mr Waters, the light-keeper at-the Bathurst Point lighthouse, and his daughter Florrie, aged eio-hteen, were fishing in a v dingny, wnlch was upset in the breakers in a narrow passage. Waters was unable to swim, but his daughter was a powerful swimmer. Time after time the pair were washed from the upturned boat, but the girl each time brought her father back.. Several times the boat overturned on the top of the man, when the girl dived under and dragged him out. She struggled for an hour before help was forthcoming.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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