A narrow escape from drowning was experienced by a young whitebait fisher while standing on one of the crossbeams underneath the wharf on a recent morning (relates the Grey River Argus). His net pole snapped suddenly. and lie was precipitated into the water. The coat he was wearing became entangled round his head, and V lie would undoubtedly have been drowned, had it not been for a fellow-'i fisherman, Mr. A. Lees, who gallantly plunged in to his rescue. The lad was brought ashore little the worse for his
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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16644, 14 November 1925, Page 5
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