BOY PLUCKILY RESCUES CHILD
By Telegraph—Press Association. HAMILTON, March 16. A plucky rescue was effected in the Waikato River last evening when lan Paterson, aged 14, the. Hamilton High School junior swimming champion, dived to the rescue of a child of GJ years, Roy Hunt, who was seen clinging to a capsized canoe. The canoe was seen revolving near midstream, the child being periodically submerged. He was rapidly becoming exhausted and only the prompt action of Paterson averted a fatality.
On reaching the canoe Paterson had to swim more than 400 yards to shore, where the child was given first aid.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 10
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101BOY PLUCKILY RESCUES CHILD Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 10
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