A LUSITANIA MAN
• IN WELLINGTON. Among the passengers to arrive, from. Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday .was Mr. Rigg, a Britisher,; who was a passenger on the Lusitania, when she was torpedoed. Mr. Iligf;, who is now on a health recruiting trip through having sustained a severe nervous shock, has come to New Zealand to visit his brother,; who resides in Christchurch. Mr. Rigg did not desire, to relate , the horrors of his recent tragic experience, 'but that he "played tho game is evidenced by the fact that lie was instrumental in saving four children, which he earned off from their cabins several decks down, after winch he endeavoured to save the mother, who .was too terrified to accept deliverance at his hands. For this action Mr. Rigg was presented by an American life-saving society with an extremely handsome gold medal, which he was wearing on his vest when the Moeraki arrived yesterday.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2627, 24 November 1915, Page 7
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153A LUSITANIA MAN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2627, 24 November 1915, Page 7
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