FARM-GIRL HEROINE
A plucky farm girl, Margaret Bateson, aged 17, of Hutton Roof. Kirkby Lonsdale. near Kendal. Westmorland, ■who was the means of saving several lives when a fire broke" out at the It nely farm, was presented with the c rtificate of the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, and a cheque, at Westmorland Quarter Sessions. The girl found a youth, George Mason, lying almost, unconscious from s noke in bed. She roused him, and half led and half dragged him from the ro6m. across a landing into her own bedroom. Opening a window, she pulled him out on to a sloping roof. Together they slid down this roof, dropped six fei-t on to another roof, and then had to jump 10 feet to the ground. Once all the inmates were safe the girt led the fire-fighters carrying buckets of water until she and the firemen. Who mean*while had arrived, were driven from the house by the burning debris.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 8
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162FARM-GIRL HEROINE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 8
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