The value of teaching children to swim at an early age was well demonstrated during the Easter holidays, when Eileen Osborne, aged seven, ot Malania, rescued her baby brother, aged 18 months, from drowning. She was carrying the baby over a single plank that crosses a steam on her father’s farm when she slipped and fell into a tleep pool. Although there were adults in the vicinity, the child did not hesitate to dive in and drag the infant to the bank. Eileen is a pupil at the Matarua Valley School, where all scholars are proficient in swimming.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1940, Page 2
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