V.C.’S GALLANTRY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 7

V.C.’S GALLANTRY

DROWNING BOY RESCUED FROM POOL IN PARK SYDNEY, Feb. 8. After saving the life of a boy who had fallen into one of the deep ornamental pools in University Park on Wednesday night. Mr. J. W. Whittle. Y.C., declined to give liis name and went home. His action was only discovered later, by accident. The boy, Gilbert Goldberg, 3, of Rose street, Darlington, was admitted to the Children’s Hospital in a serious condition, but yesterday was reported to be making good progress. Mr. Whittle was crossing the park, when a small boy, so.bbing, told him that his brother was in the pool. Heedless of weeds, Mr. Whittle dived repeatedly in deep water, and found the little bov in the mud at the bottom of /{he pool. He applied artificial respiration methods for nearly a quarter of an hour before ambulance officers arrived.

v Mr. S. J. Law. manager for NewSouth Wales of the Western Assurance Company, gave an account of the rescue. He said that nothing would have been known of Mr. Whittle’s brave .action if a. friend had not questioned him when fie noticed that bis watch was nussing. Mr. Whittle was unemployed several years ago, and was given an opportunity with the firm as the result of a paragraph appearing in the Herald. He had more than justified the confidence shown in him.