YOUNG WOMAN’S GALLANTRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21024, 13 May 1930, Page 10

YOUNG WOMAN’S GALLANTRY

BOY SAVED FROM DROWNING. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, May 12. A gallant rescue was effected at Stanley Bay yesterday afternoon, when Jack Cruickshank, aged six, of Wellington, was saved from drowning by the prompt action of Mias Edna Thorpe, who resides at Ponsonby road. The boy. whose family are on holiday in Auckland, was fishing off the end of the Stanley Bay jetty with his elder brother when he suddenly slipped and fell into the water. There was no one at hand on the wharf to save him, and the boy would have perished but for the plucky action of Miss Thorpe, who was on-board a yacht which happened to be passing close by. Diving in fully clothed, Miss Thorpe swam to the rescue, bringing the boy to land at the launch steps running down from the jetty, and the child was restored to his parents frightened, but little the worse for his misadventure. PROMPT AND PLUCKY RESCUE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 12. A prompt and plucky rescue was effected when a man named Whitelaw fell off the Queen’s wharf and Pcreival Raymond Foster, a salesman, living at 18 Edge Hill, Wellington, jumped in after him with all his clothes on and saved his life by holding his head above water until both were hauled out of the ice-cold sea. Both were subsequently taken to the shelter of the Wharf Police Office, and Foster, who had in some way suffered gashes to both hands, was attended to by free ambulance.