RESCUE FROM DROWNING
BOY'S BRAVERY RECOGNISED [I!Y TKLKGUATMT —OWN CO Hit KS !'<)>." nKNT] INVERCAI iC. ILL, Turstlay Tho plucky action of a student at tlio Southland Hovs' High School was recognised when T. M. Cuslion, aged 17, son of Mr. J. A. Cushen, headmaster of the North School, was presented with a wristlet watch by Dr. G. H. Uttley before tho assembled students. During the Easter holidays Cuslion was one of a camping party at Oreti. Several hoys were bathing in the river and one of them sot into difficulties in deep water. Without hesitation Cuslion jumped in and wont to his rescue. The boy struggled and Cushen was dragged under. He managed to fight free, caught the other hoy by the hair and dragged him to the hank. There he and another boy applied artificial respiration. Details of the rescue are being collected and will he forwarded to a representative of tho Royal Humnno Society in Dunedin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23621, 3 April 1940, Page 10
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158RESCUE FROM DROWNING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23621, 3 April 1940, Page 10
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