MAN RESCUED FROM DROWNING
REPORT TO SOCIETY OF SCHOOL BOY’S FEAT
(United Press Association)
CHRISTCHURCH, March 30.
.A rescue from drowning by a 14-year-old schoolboy, Pat Cooper, is to be reported to the Royal Humane Society. The boy, who attends the Christ-
church Technical College, had been learning life-saving only seven weeks, but he carried out a first-class rescue at an isolated part of the Waimakariri river mouth where a man caught in an out-going tide by severe cramp, was in grave difficulties. W’hen Cooper reached him the man was going down for the third time. The boy broke the man’s clutch, brought him ashore in a strong current and resuscitated him, all according to the text book and with complete success. The boy said nothing of the incident, which only became known when the rescued man telephoned the school.
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Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 8
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