UNKNOWN RESCUER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 8

UNKNOWN RESCUER.

Girl Saves Child’s Life at Sumner. Recently a lad was rescued from drowning at Sumner under circumstances that stand to the credit of an unknown rescuer. The victim, a boy of about nine years of age, was scrambling amongst the rocks when he fell into deep water and was unable to reach the shore.

A young lady, in ordinary attire, noticing his predicament, rushed to the spot and dived in fully dressed. After reaching the lad and successfully bringing him ashore, she modestly mad e off along the Clifton beach past the pier, took the main road up the Clifton Hill, and was last seen making her way round one of the bends well above the Clifton residences. An onlooker, a well-known Redcliffs resident, was as loud in his praise of the plucky deed as he was surprised by the sudden disappearance of the young lady as she fled from publicity over the hills.

All fish which are obliged to rise to the surface to breathe have their tails placed differently; they are horizontal, instead of being straight in a line with the body. Then when they flap them the fishes ascend or descend. In most fish there is a little bladder full of air, which always keeps them floating in the water. If the bladder should break the fish lies at the bottom help- ; less. Flounders, soles and skates have no bladder. They seldom rise much above the bottom of the water, and directly they stop swimming they drop to the ground.