A PLUCKY RESCUE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1810, 2 December 1919, Page 7

A PLUCKY RESCUE.

[Special to The Sun.] WANGANUI, December 1. A plucky act of rescue was performed at Castlecliff by one Cliff Day. It appears that when a party of men were fishing off "the south mole at dusk, between 7 and 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, one of them was precipitated into the water by a sudden gust of wind. When he fell into the sea he was thrown a light rope, which he grasped, while Day ran along the mole, and, securing a heavy rope, plunged into the sea after his companion, to whom he tied the rescue line, and his other mates on the molo then pulled him in. If it had not been for the act of Day, the other man would have been in serious danger, as at the time of the occurrence there was a strong wind blowing, and a heavy tide on the ebb, while the man's legs were inextricably entangled in his own fishing line, which would have made it impossible for him to swim, even if the sea had been calm.