AWARDS FOR BRAVERY
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Christchurch, February 13. At a meeting of the directors of the Royal Humane Society to-day, it was decided to award a bronze medal, to Patrick AlcCarthy Young, a man residing at Bluff, who rescued Margaret Russell from drowning at Bluff on November 23. A certificate was awarded the nearest relative of Claude Aldwyn Mulvaney, of Auckland, who attempted to rescue Howard Bernard Loft, a lad of nine years, from drowning at \\ anganui on January 5. Application for an award for Joseph Henry Anderson, Wanganui, was held over for further information, action to be left with the president and secretary. A bronze medal was awarded John David E. Shaw, Christchurch, who rescued Morris Holmes from drowning, at 1 Redcliffs on May 2-5, 1927.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 8
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