Boy Saved from Drowning A drowning accident v/as narrowly averted at Matarau, North Auckland, when a five-year-old boy, Bruce Birch, fell into a flooded stream. He was rescued by a Maori woman, Mrs. Mary Joyce, who swam the stream to reach him. The boy was playing with other children near the Huehue Stream. He fell into the water and was carried downstream for about a chain before he managed to grasp a willow branch. Two of the children, running for help, met a party of Maori women about 200 yards away, who ran to the stream. Mrs. Joyce jumped in, reached the boyand then swam with him to the opposite bank. The boy, who had collapsed, was revived, and was little the worse for his experience.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1946, Page 5
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126Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1946, Page 5
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