NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
A BRAVE RESCUER.
[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Nelson, Thursday. Some girls were bathing in the Maitai River to-day when two gob beyond their depth, and were drowning, when their cries attracted a young man named Fred Poole, who jumped in. The girls clung to him, and he experienced a narrow escape, but managed to struggle ashore with one girl, and two other men arriving, the second girl was also saved. lb was a narrow escape.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9722, 18 January 1895, Page 5
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