On Way To School
A 12-year-old boy on his way to school was “blue with cold” when a farmer found him marooned on the Wai-wera-Helensville highway yesterday morning. The boy, Leo Durno, was riding his bicycle to the Upper Waiwera School when he found the Waiwera river was rising behind him.
“I couldn’t go forward and I couldn’t go back, so I just sat there in the road,” said Leo.
The farmer who rescued Leo was Mr T. Coles, of Upper Waiwera, who was looking for his sheep when he spotted
Leo’s lonely figure about a quarter of a mile away. “I can’t swim,” Mr Coles said last night, but a relative held a rope which was tied around my waist so I could walk over to Leo.
“The current was pretty swift, but I was able to carry him across the road.
“He was marooned there, as the creek was on one side and the flooded road on the other.
“He had been there an hour and a half, and he was blue with cold. He revived when I gave him a good hot drink.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 1
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186On Way To School Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 1
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