DROWNING GIRL RESCUED.
SCHOOLBOY'S I'LUC'KY ACT
The value of school instruction in life 1 saving was demonstrated nl Wanganui;. when a little girl would have been drowned in the Avenue soboo baths but W the tbnelv intervention of o school he-v named B'ox Smith. H appears that mile . f,irlfe wero rn having a. sb-um. One ■of them while ait the deep end., b«-o,llow-oA o mouthful of water, which immediately aJfo'tcrl her., and die went under. \ liile gifl Una Granger. mu«d« m uu to gd her Ike ■Siri; in dMfeulties W3s si desperate* im* ti* votil«£be- nescuer- seemed helpTete; < ' jfe. <Wugl» of otljer/ girls,, jar* the alarm. ip'i * S&ifeaAanda/r* bo;, P« Satoth. ■*g# down' ffott thov playground and jumped 1 in fully AoWA. Hit lifeWittg' was immediately applied, and the drowning- girl war, roon out of the water. The custodian, who .had only been absent, for a moment or two, arrived and 1 using resuscitation methods restored! animation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 10
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157DROWNING GIRL RESCUED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 10
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