A BRAVE GIRL HONOURED.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) 'United Press Association.) Fremantle, February 4. At a meeting of citizens Florrie Waters was presented with a purse of sovereigns and also £lO subscribed by Sydney citizens. A cablegram from Fremantle on December loth said: A heroic and successful struggle by a girl to rescue her father from drowning is reported from Rottnest Island. Waters, the light-keeper at Bathurst Point lighthouse, and his daughter, aged 18, were fishing when the dinghy upset in the breakers in a narrow passage. AVaters was unable to swim. His daughter was a powerful swimmer. Time after time the pair were washed from the upturned boat. The girl each time brought her father back. Several times the boat overturned on the top of the man, and the girl dived under and dragged him out. She struggled for an hour, till help was forthcoming.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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145A BRAVE GIRL HONOURED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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