BOY'S BRAVE ACT
PLUNGE INTO HARBOUR ■
YOUNGER LAD RESCUED
[BY iTELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] ■:? DUNEDIN, Friday
The bravery jot John Todds, aged 13, saved Peter Mouritsen, aged seven, front' drowning in the harbour at Ravens-" bourne last evening. The boy Mouritsen was fishing afc the jetty, when hj« . fell into deep water. The lad's companion called for help, and Todds, although fully clothed andf only a learner at swimming, plunged ia and brought the unconscious boy to the piles, where, himself exhausted, he hune to his burden until both were rescued in a dinghy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22018, 26 January 1935, Page 10
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