SAVED TWO LIVES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1932, Page 8

SAVED TWO LIVES

MODEST BOY SCOUT. “DID HIS GOOD TURN FOR THE DAY.” AUCKLAND, November 28. “Hello, Skipper Ivan Reid, has done his good turn for to-day. He pulled a' couple of boys out of Whau Creek this afternoon.” This was the way in which the Scoutmaster of the Waterview Troop learned that one,of his scouts had saved the lives of two-Avondale schoolboys. Beyond confirming the fact that he had “done his duty,” Reid would give little information to the Scoutmaster, and inquiries at the lad’s home and also at school revealed the fact that ho had guarded the secret even there. Four Avondaie schoolboys left school on Friday last with the intention of having a swim in the Whau Creek, just where the creek sweeps round at the hack of the racecourse. Clive McClintOck and Arthur Woodward, both fourteen years of age, were playing about iii shallow water near the bank when MeClintock slipped into the channel, where the water is about twenty feet deep. In trying to save himself he grabbed Woodward’s leg, and in a, moment the two non-s.wiminers vieie in danger of drowning. Reid sprang to the rescue and, reaching MeClintock, had little difficulty in bringing him to' safety. Meantime the swift current had carried young Woodward off short, and Reid had to swim well into the channel to assist him. i SPECTATOR’S STORY. Harold Killey, a fourth member of the party,’and also a Boy Scout, Was swimming too 1 far away to help, hut stated lie saw Reid swim round in a circle and ’catch hold of Woodward as lie came'to the suiface. He had sunk mere than obee. Beyond being badly scared, neither of the hoys was affected by the accident/and had Killey not reported the incident to the " Scoutmaster, in all probability nothing- would have been known-of it. • ■' Reid, who will not be fourteen until January next, is a very bright and alert Vad. The Shout Association intends to apply to' Tmpmfii -Headquarters for official recognition of Reid’s bravery, which they expect will be rewarded with the association's silvpr cross.