GALLANT ACTION
BY A LAD OF SEVENTEEN. (By T^lecranli.—Press Associations Waihi, July 15. In connection with the drowning _of the boy parr, a story of a gallant action of Walter Ormsby, aged seventeen, was told at the inquest to-day. It appears that two children were left in a rapidlydrifting punt from which the deceased had jumped,. and would have been swirled over a dam a few chains down stream into a deep whirlpool below had not Ormsby promptly rushed to the bank and dived in with his clothes on. He swam to the punt and got it to the bank. (
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 2
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100GALLANT ACTION Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 2
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