FIGHT FOR LIFE

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 128, 30 December 1938, Page 3

FIGHT FOR LIFE

THICK l-’AU.S KIJO.M I’l'M' PA i! KINTS AND HA MV SAVKD When ;i truck ji lit I into. the |-ivcc nt Congnrinni Crossing over 'I uylor\ Arm, tlircc miles ' from Mjm kvilie. I:is|. night, n woman 11ml her eight-weeks-old hiih.v, niul the wmiiiin's husband, wlin tried to rescue them, narrowly escaped drowning. The truck Wits being In ken across the mi r by punt. When the punt reached tlie river -hank the owner, Sidney Kllwny, larnnr. out out; and cranked the motor. H. is believed that the engine was still iu gear. Air. Kllway’s wile and baby were sitting in the truck, and alien the vehicle ran backwards, Kiev were carried with it into the liver. Mr. Kl I way immediately plunged into the river to, their assistance, lint being hilly clothed was soon in dilliculties. Mrs. Kill way,' who could swim, came to the surface with her hahy in her arms, and then tried to help her husband. They both sank, hut. the baby remained’ on the surface. Many Ijowe, the piintliiaii, went to the assistance of the parents, and then, seeing that they were able to struggle to satetv. swam downtide about oi yards, found the baby floating under (be surface of the water, and. conveyed it to the river hnidy. ■ The family recovered alter treatment.