SAVED FROM DROWNING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 8

SAVED FROM DROWNING.

MAN FALLS FROM WHARF?

SALESMAN'S VALUABLE HELP,

[BY TELEGBAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.J WELLINGTON, Monday.

'A plucky rescue was performed in the harbour on Saturday evening, when Percival Raymond Foster, salesman, jumped from a wharf fully clothed after a in an named Wbitclaw, and got hold of him. Mi 1 . Foster had been seeing the ferry steamer off, and when returning ho saw Whitelaw overbalance and fall into the water. A rope was thrown to Foster, but it broke as the pair V/ere being dragged up and they fell back for a second immersion.

STANLEY BAY INCIDENT,

GIRL'S PLUCKY ACTION.

A plucky rescue from drowning of a six-year-old boy, Jack Cruickshank, of Wellington, was made by Miss Edna Thorpe, aged 19, of 205, Ponsonby Road, at Stanley Bay on Sunday afternoon. The boy, whose parents were visiting Auckland, was fishing oS tho ead of Stanley Bay jetty with a young brother, when ho fell into tho water. Titers was no one on tho wharf and Miss Ihorps, who was on board a passing yacht, dived in fully clothed and brought the boy to tho wharf steps. The child was later 10stored to bis parents little the worse for his misfortune.

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.

CONDITIONS IN SOUTH.:

Auckland. —The light southerly win and fine clear weather continued in Auckland yesterday. The barometer was stea y at 30.50 in. , „ r t nr dav Christchurch.—The weather y _ was calm and fine, following ten degrees of frost, but there was a fair a " oun cloud. The maximum 66 degrees. The barometer a ward tendency,, the reading m the city for an hour or two yesterday ing. It cleared about 10 a.m. an remainder of the day was bright and calm, but cold. The barometer was fairly steady, tho reading iu the c. being 30.20 in. '