AN HEROIC DAUGHTER.
Freeman?!,!*, Saturday. An heroic and successful attempt by a girl to rescue her father from drowning is reported from Rottenest Island. Waters, the light - keeper at Bathurst Point Lighthouse, and his daughter, aged eighteen, were fishing when their dinghy was upset by the breakers in a narrow passage. Waters was unable to swim but his daughter is a powerfu swimmer. 1
Time after time the pair were washed from the upturned boat, and the girl each time brought her father back. Several times the boat was overturned on top of him. But the girl dived under and dragged him out.
The struggle lasted for an hour, Then at last help was forthcoming.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1040, 17 December 1912, Page 3
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115AN HEROIC DAUGHTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1040, 17 December 1912, Page 3
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