WAKEFIELD.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13896, 31 December 1913, Page 6

WAKEFIELD.

What might easily have proved & fatal accident was averted by, the presence of mind of two young men. It appears that these two, Messrs., Jack Andrews and John Small, went down to the Wai-iti river to bathe on Christmas morning, just behind Mr. Edward Hoult's residence. . The river was full of water, arid the hole deep, with a strong current. Mr. S. Hoult's eight-year-old son Trevor Hoult came down, and said he was going for a paddle. They told him not to bathe, but he took off his clothes and went across. On returning he slipped on a boulder, and got into deep water. Andrews immediately ran to the hole and plunged in. Young Hoult got him by the throat, but he brought the unconscious boy to the bank, where Andrews and Small brought the lad round. The Rev. Hornby Spear is to take the services in St. John's Church next Sunday, the vicar (the Rev. J. R. Dart) having gone to Picton and Blenheim for a week. Mr. Spear last preached in Wakefield some 37 years ago. Many of those whom he knew have passed away, but their children and a few old settlers will doubtless appreciate his visit among them. He is to remain a day or^ two after Sxinday, and will stay at the vicarage. The weather is delightful, and harvesting is in full swing. The crops are excellent, and the hops have been groatlj' benefitted by the warm woather.