CHIVALRY!
Woman in Distress KNIGHT OF THE FERRY The spirit which prompted the knight of old to don his sardine-tin armour and go to the assistance of his ladye fayre is not dead. Chivalry slept in the breast of a young man on a ferry steamer yesterday afternoon and the sight of a woman in distress and a child in her arms roused him to action. Just as the 4.50 ferry steamer was leaving the Devonport Wharf yesterday afternoon the woman arrived to catch the boat for the City, but unfortunately she was just a little late. There she stood, a pretty picture of distress. The gangway had been raised, but the ferry had not started to steam out." Gallantly the young man hurried forward and took the baby from the woman’s arms so that she could board the ferry unhindered. Before the woman could clamber on board, however, the ferry steamer drew out and her child was left in the arms of the strange young man. A vehicular ferry left a few minutes later and the mother managed to get on board and complete her journey to the city. She found her child safe in the arms of a sailor on the ferry the young man had fled, though he did his duty nobly on the journey across the harbour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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221CHIVALRY! Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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