AWARD FOR BRAVERY
RESCUE FROM THE SURF. COMMANDER OF CRUISER. LONDON, April 12. Before Mrs ,S. M. Bruce launched the Melbourne Steamship Company’s Duntroon, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Australian Official Secretary, Mr MeLaren, presented the Humane Society’s certificate to Commander J. A. Collins, of the cruiser Sydney, now being built there.
Commander Collins, in the course of a game of golf, went to the rescue of a woman who was in danger in the rock-bound surf at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, on August 30 last. He saved her from drowning.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19350501.2.63
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 6
Word Count
88AWARD FOR BRAVERY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 6
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in