GALLANT RESCUE
MAORI WOMAN SAVES MAN FROM DROWNING. SWIM IN COLD FLOOD WATERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DARGAVILLE, This Day. A drowning fatality was narrowly averted when flood waters were at their height at Tangiteroria. Some Maoris, whose pulling boat was fastened to a willow on the opposite bank of the river, endeavoured to remove the boat. In doing so, a Maori, Dave Davis, was overcome with cold. His sister-in-law, Mrs W. Davis, seeing his predicament, divested herself of some of her heavy clothing and plunged into the river to his assistance. By this time Davis’was losing consciousness, but he succeeded in holding fast to a branch of a willow. Mrs Davis tied a scarf around the helpless man and brought him to shore, where willing helpers lifted the man and his rescuer out, and, with warm blankets and a blazing fire, soon brought the man roufid, little the worse for his experience.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1938, Page 6
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152GALLANT RESCUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1938, Page 6
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