This month’s New Zealand School Journal contains the story of the heriosm of Frances Mason, aged 10, who, with her cousin, Molly Camplin, aged 3, was killed by a train on the Kakariki railway bridge last Boxing Day. At the inquest the driver of the train testified that when the elder girl saw the train coming she tried to protect her cousin with her own body. A framed inscription to the bravery of Frances Mason, accompanied by a memorial message signed by a ten-year-old girl from each of the Wellington schools, was recently placed in the Kakariki school, of which the girl was a pupil. Now at the instance of the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, who made representations to the Minister of Education, the children of New Zealand will be told the story in the School Journal, in ■which a comparison is made between Frances Mason’s unselfish bravery and the golden deeds of history. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 5
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