SAVED FROM DROWNING.
LEVIN SCHOOL PTCNTO INCIDENT. Yesterday's 'picnic of the Levin school children, at Horowhenua Lake, was almost marred, hut fortunately tlie imminent fatality was averted Freda McTaggnrt, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. McTag(,;art, of this town, put off in a boat with some others, but when stepping into it on < the wharf side of the lako she slipped and fell into deep water. She could _ not swim, and her case was precarious, but fortunately she was rescued by the Misses Wooding and Whitaker and, Mrs Middlemiss, who came up on hearing the children's outcries, and with commendable presence of mind took remedial measures. The girl was hysterical last night, but to-day she is on a fair way towards recovery. .
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1910, Page 2
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122SAVED FROM DROWNING. Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1910, Page 2
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