RESCUE IN ROUGH SEA
COURAGEOUS YOUNG WOMAN. TALLY OF TWO LIVES SAVED. AUCKLAND, September 17. For the second time in eighteen months, Miss Edna Thorpe, aged 20, rescued a boy aged fifteen from drowning in the harbour last night. When waiting for a ferry at Devonport, she heard cries. Two women told her that a boy had fallen in and Miss Thorpe immediately dived to the rescue. The sea was rough and a strong cur- : rent was running, but she reached the boy, who struggled. Miss Thorpe man- ' aged to keep his head above water till ! they drifted under the wharf and were swept by the tide from pile to pile until others could help her. I A year ago Miss Thorpe rescued a boy of six who had been fishing off the 1 wharf at Stanley Bay. She‘injured her back in some way and her doctor I ordered her not to go swimming again. I Recently she has- been suffering from [influenza. Last night was bitterly [ cold and Miss Thorpe’s splendid rescue l>is all the more praiseworthy, as she was not in the best of health. She is. a. • slim girl, under eight- stone. This morning she was up and about as usual and smiled as she told modestly of the rescue.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1931, Page 8
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