A PLUCKY BOY
(Per Press Association.) Wanganui, last night._ On Thursday last E. Tait, B. Sinclair, and F. Kroger were fishing on the sea beach at Waverley. While climbing round tho edge of a cliff, Sinclair fell 70 feet on • to a hard sandy bottom, a place which is ’ covered with eight feet of water at high tide. liregor, a youth of 18, offered to be lowered down by an ordinary fishing lino. On reaching the bottom ho found Sinclair unconscious, and volunteered to stand by while assistance was procured from four miles away. After two hours, the tide meanwhile coming in, a rope arrived, and both boys were drawn up. The action of young Kreger is warmly commended.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 810, 27 January 1903, Page 3
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