SAVED FROM RIVER.
TWO YOUNG MAORI GIRLS.
RESCUER'S COURAGEOUS ACT. [BY TEJ.EGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAUPO, Thursday. Two Maori girls, Agnes Moon and Hariata Heemi, aged ten and nine years respectively, while swimming in the Waikato River got into difficulties. Hine Garfnonswav, another Maori girl, aged 18 years, jumped into the swift-running river without discarding her clothes and, after great difficulty and with the assistance of her younger sister Rita, managed to get the girls ashore in a very exhausted state.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 8
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