A BRAVE DEED.
(Por Press Association). OHRISTCHURCH, November 6. .The secretary of the Royal Humane Society has^received an application for recognition of a brave act performed by Evan 0. IMcßoberte at the Bay of Plenty on March 23rd of this year. M<v Roberts, who is a letter carrier, " was out boating on the coast (between Maungatopu and Matapiihi with another young man named Spooner and two young ladies. The boat upset and the occupants found themselves struggling in twenty feet of water. Moßoiberts only could swim, and, after his three companions had gained ihold of the upturned boat, he set out for the shore, three-quarters of a mile away. He, however, failed to get any assistance, and then commenced a. long swim of a mile across an arm of the sea in further search for aid. Eventually he was picked up by a man named Chappell and a Maori, and the three rowed towards the scene of Ithe accident, where they found the two young ladies and youngJSpooner in the last stages of exhaustion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12647, 7 November 1905, Page 5
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174A BRAVE DEED. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12647, 7 November 1905, Page 5
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