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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 63

Captain .Linn, the .secretary oh tliej Royal Humane Society at Christchurch has just received applications for awards on behalf , of two ■ Maori girls-r-Mamae itangitahua and Ita . Pokitia, aged sixteen andt ; fifteen years. • On’ the . 2j3hh November last -they >•went h for a bathe; in. the Wanganui river at Koroniti, and: swam down stream to a rapid, wherethey, were when they were startled by .a' cry, for help 'from further; iipv .rXodking. in; ?'the direction ; vom i which the ory came,' they saw a smaller gii?h Rikirahgi Osborn, throw * tip" her 5 - Urms; and- sink, cThey ’Warn • wiflh/hll) speed to ‘the -rescue aild-“chught : • the drowning. girl r just 'as v she canie~ to r i be: surface again, -anfd> 'tried. to ” carry ~ her ashore. 4 After' mpchj struggling, tl/e* current carried til'd three girls down on to' the' 'rapid/' while the r eldest ofthbin Still clung desperately to, the Tiltler oiie. -- ; O y&c* tlie, rapid, ere parHed/ info°a '*strong ■ " from which they' could i\6t get/free, and,wore whirled round' ajidf round this, eddy,... /: rAt' length tlio .oddest. gjrFsstrength failed, and she sank, together with the one she was holding up. .At this moment a canoe put out to the rescue, and in. the' nick of time arrived on the reene as the two rose to the surface. ■ Both were saved. The second of the older g~rls appeared on the surface a moment " later, and was picked up by a second 1 'canoe.

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