TWO GIRLS DROWNED
’ OTHERS RESCUED HEROIC BEACH INSPECTOR (Received Dec. 15, noon.) SYDNEY, Dec. 5. Two schoolgirls, Thelma Riley, 15, and , Elvy Hamilton, nine, were drowned in the surf at Thirroul, on the south coast. Two others in the same party were rescued at the point of exhaustion. The tragedy was relieved only by tho heroism of a beach inspector, Jack Rankin, who, after rescuing two, searched for the others. He had to be dragged forcibly from the water, and needed medical attention.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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