CONSTABLE'S HOLIDAY.
SAVING A GIRL'S LIFE. The fact that Plainclothes Constable Norman Hardy, of the Sydney Water Police, decided to spend a day o5 fishing at Nielsen Park, saved Eileen Rying, a young girl, from drowning last week. Girls from a Paddington convent were swimming off the beach, and Constable Hardy was fishing from the end of the jetty. Cries of "She's drowning, S ' IC , S drowning," attracted his attention. Looking. up he saw two girls struggling in the water 30yds. from the beach. "I wa3 fully dressed and did not nave time to throw off any clothing. Running along the jetty, I dived into the w ® and swam to the rescue," remarked Constable Hardy. - • One girl was trying to support Eileen Rying. Both were exhausted. Just as Miss Rving sank the constable seized her bv the hair. She was unconscious when brought to the beach, but two life-savers revived her by artificial respiration. "Just as I heard the cries of the girls," said Mr. Hardy, ruefully, a "'S bream took the bait. I dropped the line, and the fish got away/i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19831, 29 December 1927, Page 10
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182CONSTABLE'S HOLIDAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19831, 29 December 1927, Page 10
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