PLUCK AND MODESTY.
CROMWELL GIRL’S BRAVERY, (Per United Press Association.) .. INVERCARGILL, January 9. While bathing at Bluff on New Veni-’a Day, Isobel on Tunzelmann, a resident of Inve--cargill, got into difficulties, but was saved from drowning by the prompt and plucky action of a young girl, who disappeared afterwards without disclosing her name, and Miss Von Tunzelmann has been unable to express her gratitude to her heroic rescuer. It is learned to-day, however, that the gril who rescued Miss Von lunzelmnnn is Daphne Scheib, a high school girl hvmg at Cromwell, ami who Mas visiting Invercargill on holiday. ■ It is considered that Miss Scheib’s splendid performance is_ deserving of recognition tho Royal Humane Society,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20612, 10 January 1929, Page 8
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