RESCUED FROM DROWNING.
U.S.S. CO/S OFFICER'S PLUCKY ACTION. Shortly after V o'clock last evening, a man named .Tolni. Harris, aged 35 years, a labomcr, was observed struggling in the harbour opposite the Union Company's steamer Maori. It appears that Harris intended proceeding south by tho vessel, ami hail deposited his effects on board. On walking down tho gangway ' 10 proceeded across tho whirl and somehow fell into tho harbour at borth named .No. 4. Immediately the cry, "Man overboard," was raised, and t'lio Harbour Board officials on duty threw life-lines to tho man. Harris, howover, appeared to take no notice of the help offered (tho lines fell right across him), and the second officer of the Maori, hearing the noise, appeared on the sceno. Ho immediately divested himself of his coat and jumped in. The officer managed to ficcuro Harris and kept him afloat until assistance arrived. It is stated by eye-witnesses that but for tho officer's promptitude Harris ■would have been drowned. Tho latter 1 was taken charge of by tho police on being landed, and locked up for tho night, charged with insobriety.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1489, 11 July 1912, Page 4
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185RESCUED FROM DROWNING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1489, 11 July 1912, Page 4
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