NEW ZEALAND GIRL'S EXPERIENCES.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 477, 14 July 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND GIRL'S EXPERIENCES.

MISS TOWNSHEND'S SWIM FOX LIFE. Miss T, Townshend, of Blenheim, a girl of 17 years, noted m athletics, dived from the vessel m her night robes, and set out to swim for shore, some five miles distant. She \yas picked up by a boat, m perfect health and condition, after swimming over a mile. " I did not dare look back," she told a representative of the Toronto ' Globe/ '* lest what 1 might see would unnerve me." Miss Townshend. lost her aunt, who was accompanying her ori the trip. Miss Townshend went to the pier to look for her aunt, Mrs Wynne Price, of Auckland, New Zealand. Miss Townshend,* m the company of Dr Grant, surgeon of the Empress, looked at practically all of the bodies bn the pier before she lifted the lid of coffin No. 4, containing the body of her aunt. She displayed remarkable self-control, but at the sight of her aunt's body she began to weep.