A GIRL GUIDE
A. big boy of 15 took two little friends of five and six for a row at Southend recently. In trying to avoid the jetty he fell overboard, and the little ones’ panic capsized the boat. Rescuers hurried to them, but the youngest boy was only found after Sergeant Smith, R.G.A., had dived many times, and then he was dead. The six-year-old boy, Ronald Cooper, was also brought ashore in an unconscious state. But luckily there was a Girl Guide there, Annie Burrows, and she used artificial respiration until the boy revived. The eldest boy had swum safely ashore. At the inquest the coroner praised AnnU* Burrows for saving Ronald Cooper’s life. But for her there would have been two little bodies instead of one. Sometimes first aid seems rather dull, but the story of Annie Burrows makes it seem worth while. Probably the greatest believer in the Girl Guide Movement to-day is the mother of Ronald Cooper.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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161A GIRL GUIDE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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