PLUCKY SWIMMER
MAN FALLS OFF WHARF RESCUER FULLY-CLOTHED Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. A prompt and plucky rescue was effected when a man named Whitelaw fell off Queen’s Wharf and Percival Raymond Foster, a salesman, living at IS Edge Hill, Wellington, jumped in after him with all his clothes on. He saved his life by holding his head above water until both were hauled out of the ice-cold sea. Both were subsequently taken to the shelter of the wharf police office and Foster, who had In some way received .gashes to both his hands, was attended to by the ambulance attendants.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 969, 12 May 1930, Page 16
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100PLUCKY SWIMMER Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 969, 12 May 1930, Page 16
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