SCOUT’S PRESENCE OF MIND
(United Pres* Association! AUCKLAND, 26th January. When Ivor James Lawson, aged eight, ran home screaming with his clothes ablaze from contact with a grass fire at Kingsland, his elder brother, Alan, member of the Wesley Boy Scout troop, seized a blanket, wrapped it round his brother, and rolled him over and over, extinguishing the flames. Both boys were admitted to hospital severely burned, James in a serious condition but improving. Alan later returned heme.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 10
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78SCOUT’S PRESENCE OF MIND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 10
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