A HEROINE.
BRAVE GIRL SAVES HER FATHER
GREAT .STRUGGLE IN THE SEA
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MELBOURNE, December 15
A message from Rottne.sst Island reports an heroic, and fortunately successful, struggle by a girl to rescue her father from drowning. It appears that Mr. Waters, the lightkeeper at Bathurst Point lighthouse, and his daughter, aged 18, were fishing in a dinghy, which upset in the breakers in a narrow passage. Waters was unable to swim, but his daughter was a powerful swimmer. Time after time he was washed from the upturned boat, but the girl each time brought her father back. Several times the boat overturned on top of the man, but the girl dived under and dragged him out. After struggling for an hour, help came.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 16 December 1912, Page 4
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127A HEROINE. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 16 December 1912, Page 4
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