Girl Rescues Two Boy Scouts From Drowning
(N.Z.P.A.— Special—Copyright.) LONDON, May 30.—A 14-year-old schoolgirl, Margaret Vaughan, jumped into a tide race half a mile wide between Sully Island, near Cardiff, and the mainland, and rescued from drowning an 18-year-old Scout troop leader, James Rees, and c. 13-year-olci member of Rees’ troop, Richard Wiggins. Rees and Wiggins were members of a party of 11 Scouts who had been picnicking on Sully Island and who were caught by the rapidly rising tide when returning to the mainland across mud flats. Margaret Vaughan, who had gone to the beach for ? swim, but had decided that the water was too cold, g<>t the boy Wiggins on her back and towed Rees behind her. Both collapsed when they reached the shore, but subsequently recovered. Another member o. the Scout troop, John Davis, aged 18, was swept out to sea and drowned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 June 1949, Page 5
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