BOY BELIEVED DROWNED.
WANGANUI LAD MISSING. PLUCKY RESCUE FROM RIVER. [Br TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ' WANGANUI, Saturday. A boy, Wallace Lacey, was reported tq be missing this morning, and fears are now entertained that he has been drowned. Ho was seen to go down to the bank of the river and it is thought that he fell in.
At about the same time another lad named Colin McNicol! got into difficulties'near the locality, but fortunately his cries were heard by a lad, Herbert Woodham. By this timo the boy was well out in the river, but Woodham dived in and brought him safely to the shore. Th® rescu* is described as a .perjr plodcy qns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 8
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113BOY BELIEVED DROWNED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 8
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