STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
DRAY HORSES IN RIVER. PLUCKY ACTS OF RESCUE. TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday. Three horses drawing a dray out, of control in midstream at. Miles Ford, in the Wanganui river, and one of the animals was drowned. A young man, W. Wools ton, was driving tho team. Ono of the leaders began to play up and was soon out of control, so Woolston promptly jumped into the water to release the animals." The leaders wore unhitched together and went down stream, where there began a struggle for the survival of the fittest. One of the animals, a big black, took too much out of itself, became entangled in the harness and was drowned. The other horse was seriously hampered by its dead companion and was almost beaten when a young man named Giles, of Manunui. swam out fully clothed and dived to unhitch the harness, a titek he succeeded in accomplishing after several attempts. The live horses thorn walked ashore in an exhausted state. In the meantime the shaft horse back at the scene of the accident had been taken ashore bv Woolston. The horses belonged to Messrs Richards and Connors, contractors. Woolston and Giles were not injured, but suffered from tho icy cold water of the river.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16773, 4 July 1925, Page 13
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208STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16773, 4 July 1925, Page 13
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