AWARDS FOR BRAVERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 260, 3 November 1931, Page 15

AWARDS FOR BRAVERY.

ROYAL itUMANE SOCIETY

PROGRESS WRECK RECALLED,

(By Telegraph.—(Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Monday,

Thirteen of the awards granted at a meeting of the Royal Humane Society of New s Zealand to-day were to men concerned in the rescue of the Crew of the ship Progress, which was wrecked at Ohiro Bay, Wellington, on May 1, 1931 - The society's silver medal was awarded to the following:— ■ . Claude Francis Petherick, tramc inspector, Wellington, aged 34: Mr. Petherick, with a line round his waisc, endeavoured -to get out to the rocks where some- of the crew of the Progress were floating in the water, but was forced back by heavy seas. Later, with Messrs. Rafaelo Alfano and A. Humphreys, he, tried to reach the locks in a dinghy. Mr. Petherick dragged a man into the boat. Walter Sydney Hammond, police constable, Wellington: He swam out with a line and attempted to rescue two men clin<nnc to the rocks. He was unable to reach them and was himself thrown into the swirling waters. He received injuries. „ Rafaelo Alfano, fisherman, aged .37: He went out with a lifeline in the treacherous sea and rescued a man i named Winton. With Messrs. Humphreys and Petherick in a dinghy he rescued two other men. Frederick Arthur Horace Baker, police constable, aged 46: Constable Baker took a" dinghy out in a heavy sea and rescued a fireman. Returning to the shore the dinghy capsized ard the constable was struck by the dinghy. He had several ribs broken, but held his man and brought him ashore unconscious. Bronze medals were awarded to Peter Isbister, Salvi Volpicelli, Salvi Greoo, Cataldo Mazzola, fishermen, Hugh Lupi, builder, Andrew George Tail, fisherman, Archibald Humphreys, tram conductor, Rafaelo Persico, fisherman, and Maurice O'Connor. Bronze medals were also awarded to two Maoris, Hau Peta and Tete Helison, of Te Kaha, near Opotiki, who rescued three men from a disabled launch driiting toward the rocky coast in mountainous seas. Certificates of merit were awarded, to Alice Glover, factory machinist, Auckland, who rescued a girl from di owning at Wairakei on January 1; to Margaret Donaldson, aged 19, who rescued a man from drowning at Port Waikato on February 15. Mavis Lapwood, of Tuakau, who assisted in the latter rescue was awarded a letter of commendation. A similar letter is to be sent to Mr. Joseph Larrett for jumping into the Auckland Harbour to save a- woman wno had jumped from a ferry steamer on July 5. y -