A PLUCKY RESCUE.
FISHERMAN'S NARROW -ESCAPE. WANGANUI, December 1. A man named Cliff Day performed a plucky act of rescue at Castlecliff. It appears that when a party of men were fishing off the south mole at dusk,. between 7 and 8 o'clock on Saturday e\ening, one of them was unfortunate enough to be precipitated into the water by a sudden and unexpected gust of wind. When he fell into the sea he) was thrown a light rope, which he grasped, while Day ran along the mole, and, securing a heavy rope, plunged into the seething sea after his companion, to whom he tied the rescue line, and his other mates on the mole then pulled him in. If it had not been for the act of Day the other man would have been in serious danger, as at the time of the occurrence there was a strong wind blowing and a heavy tide on the ebb, while the unfortunate man's legs were inextricably entangled in his own fishing line, which would have made it impossible for him to swim, even if the sea had been calm.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 5
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187A PLUCKY RESCUE. Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 5
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