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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 7

.I ■ .J Station Officer J. 11. West, the only officer .in tho London Fire Brigade who, as fin officer, has won the silror medal • of tho_ force for ."extraordinary bravery in' taring life from fire"—tho Fire Brigade. Muivalent to tho Victoria Cross--■has retired upon a pension of Jc2 4s. Bd. j>4r week, after having served in all Tanks for 28 years, tho full period of wrvice. Mr. West was an officer just "made," utationed at flio Southward headquarters, when lie won the medal at the calamitous firo which broki out in Queen" Victoria Street, City. On tho afternoon of June 9, 1902, u fierce and rdpidly-spreading fire broke' out in tho lower part of the lofty warehouse of tho General Elcctric Company, and tho girls ■working above found their escape by the ordinary means cut off, whilo the first ejeipte mhlch arrived were, too short to reiich them. With the aid of membors of tho London Salvage Corps, Mr. West, with coils of wire lashed round him, was lowered from the roof of the lofty building to tho floor, where some of tho girls were, and succeeded in savins two of them. Ho then became unconscious, and was dragged out bv the wire coiled Tound him. Seven of the work irirls I<WP«I from the building and lest their lives, and nther« wre seriously injured. • Tho old-o&tfiViislirfdjv.pery and clothing busiresa of J. J. Littlejohn. Waiißnntii, is advertised for sale as a conccrn. iln this issno appeftr particulars of 410 acres of land offered, for lease, with right o/* purchase, by Mcsrs. IT|inter. Schutze, and Gibson, Tennyson Street, Napier. ■Messrs. Abrahi"n end William", Ltd., advertise a list of stock to l>s offered at the'Lovin salo on Friday next. HAPPY THOUGIIT! • A "MONTSERRAT" Lirao Juioo and Fmafl Soda; but sco it is "SIONTSERIlA'f"—the genuine kind. •