RESCUE FROM DROWNING.
YOUNG BOY'S NARROW ESCAPE
A narrow escape from drowning occurred off tho Central Wharf yesterday afternoon, when Terrcnce Burke, a boy of about eleven years, whose parents reside at 7. Redmont Street, Ponsonby, fell into tho water without anyone noticing the accident. Fortunately the Defence steamer Lady Roberts arrived at the wharf shortly after, and as some members of tho Defence forces were landing cries were heard from the north-cast corner of the wharf. Gunner Arthur Davis Smith, running in that direction, saw the boy in tho water making frantic effort* to catch bold of the buffer piles at the corner of the wharf. The soldier climbed down the piles, and with the aid of others hauled the boy to safety on thei wharf. Blood was flowing freely from a scalp wound on tho head, where the boy bad struck something. He was unable to tell how ho got into tho waiter. After having his wound stitched by a doctor, he was taken home by the police.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 6
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