RESCUE FROM SURF
OPOTIKI VISITOR S GALLANTRY young man in breakers (From Our Own Correspondent) OPOTIKI. To-day. A" exciting rescue took place at Mukuwai Beach, near Opotiki. yesterday. A young m an. Mr. W. Wilkins, got is deptb and into difficulties. ..if 118 cries were heard by a woman, *no gave the alarm. hA axton - a visitor to Opotiki, on earing the calls, at once went to the °* r * Wilkins. Me swam into tha jr ea^ers and endeavoured to bring l di3 £ essed ba ther in. r ‘ Wilkins, however, lost his presT . ® 01 - mind and grappled with his thr^ U * r * wbom he caught by the breath r ' axton did his best to mavTJ ree ’ at tbe same time trying to *° r tbe R hore. Finally, he manv*T®. to get Mr - Wilkins into shallow ‘ £ r, t ? Bd then collapsed DenrAa is time other young men ap°n scene and carried Mr. on *° the beach, and after aD r® he revived. Mr. Wilkins to be very little the worse hi* experience.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 1
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169RESCUE FROM SURF Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 1
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