CROSS FOR GALLANTRY
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 26. When 10-year-old Ashley Goldstone woke up to find his home oh fire he remembered his boy scout training. Unable to open his bedroom window, he broke it and then picked up his younger sister who was still asleep and carried her outside to safety. “If he had panicked and gone running to his parents at the other end of the house, the girl would almost certainly have lost her life,” a Boy Scouts’ Association official said today, when it was announced Ashley had been awarded the Scouts’ Silver Cross for gallantry.
Ashley’s home at Otane, 24 miles from Hastings, was destroyed by the' fire which broke out in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 1963.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 12
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