DARING DEED
TRAWLER SKIPPER DEALS WITH MINE PUSHES IT BEFORE HIM WHILE SWIMMING. GN WAY TO SAFE PART OF BEACH. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY. November 6. A daring exploit is reported of an east eoast trawler skipper, Leo Nomya. who house was threatened with damage by the explosion of a drifting mine for a second time within a week. Nomya swam out to the mine and pushed it in front of him to a part of the beach clear of the sea wall, where later the horns of the mine wore removed. rendering it harmless.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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100DARING DEED Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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