BOY RISKS HIS LIFE.
LEAP TO RESCUE DOG. NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. A boy about 14 years of age, anxious for the safety of his pet dog, which appeared to be in danger of being cut to pieces by the incoming express train at Hawera station last evening, darted out from the bookstall and jumped on to the back of the animal, in an endeavour to kick it off the line. Failing Over the dog the boy rolled clear, between the line and the next set of rails, just as the engine, easing up, steamed past. The dog leaped back to the safety of the platform. The boy said he could not stand by and see his dog cut to pieces. He had not taken Into account his own pertt-
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17839, 11 October 1929, Page 7
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