A PLUCKY ACTION.
BOY RESCUED FROM DROWNING. A drowning fatality was narrowly averted au the. Boat Harbour about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A number of boys were playing about on the bank when one, a lad or about 13 yeansj named Underbill, lost !iis footing and fell in. 110 Bank, and was _in danger of drowning, when 'his plight was not-iced 'by Mr.. P. Seorringe, 11 Martin Square, who was working on a launch'in the harbour. Mr. iScorringe, -it is i reported, . immediately swam - to where the lad had -sunk, ' and' after diving for soiiio time -succeeded in bringing him to the surface.' The boy was then unconscious, and had grasped ILr. Scbmng'e tightly round the neck. Tho rescucf was almost exhausted when a roj'so was thrown "him,* and he managed, to cling to this .till some men canio to his assistance in a dinghy. Tho boy was revived after some. time. Mr. w. Beck, of >lossrs. Odliu and: Co., arriy&d on tlie scene just as Scorringc had succeeded in bringing-the lad to the suit face. Ho intends, to. bring tho matter under the notice of-'tho Humane Society, as it is believed to be the second occasion on-which. Mr. Scorringe has rescued a boy.'from drowning m the Boat Harbour.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 8
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209A PLUCKY ACTION. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 8
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