BOY'S BRAVERY
ELEVEN YEAR OLD LAD SAVES SISTlER'S LIFE ' " ' GRASPS BULL BY HORNS An extraordinary example of coc: age and coolness in fate of gtan danger by a young bo'y occurreiL
Poro-o-tarao, a King country setft ment, on Saturday when Stanl? Lett, aged 11 years, saved his siste Hazel, aged 7 years, from heing kiled by a bull. The children were walking acrcs a paddoek on their way home frbs school when they were attacked ii an infuriated bull. The little girl was knoclced down, and the aniffii started to maui her with its hoofi Her brother thereupon caught th bull hy the horns and placed k knees each side of its nose. Whfe the animal was tossing him abouth an endeavour to gore him, lie callh out to his sister td r'un. She erawkc painfully into the scrub. Seeing her safe Stanley let ge, and ran about 50 yards to the boundary fence, getting- through just n time, while the bull got entangled 0 the wires. Stanley then picked up his sista and carried her a mile and a half baclc to the Mangapeehi railway station. _ The boy was not hurt, but the little girl was badly bruised ahout the thighs and sides.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 September 1931, Page 2
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