BOY SCOUTS HONOURED.
. The Dominion Executive of flip P.oy Scouts' Association, I'hristchurcli. | I has awarded decorations and moril cor- I j tifieates as follows—Assistant Scout j ■ master William James, of St. Marv'sij I Troop, Parneil, gilt cross: ex-Scout Kri>- ' j Utijrer. a letter of commendation for ! rescuing a boy namrd hen Orceii from J ! drowning at sCew Plymouth last. January. James was formerly a student at the Jubilee Institute for the Blind in ' Auckland, where he learned swimmin?. C The Association's certificate of merit ' ! was awarded to Patrol leader Oberlin ! Smith, of the Leys Institute Troop, for | ' first aid and resuscitation of a man i l rescued from drowning in Auckland." Harbour: and to Scout James Thomson, v of the FTobsonville Troop, for assisting a I boy who was rendered unconscious '■ through falling from a tree. t ———_—__- P
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 192, 15 August 1922, Page 5
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