ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 9

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY

LIST OF AWARDS.

(11l TELEGRAPH.—t'RHSS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 9th August.

The Royal Humane Society of New Zealand has made the following awards :

Ernest C. Cross for an attempted ■ rescue at'Sumner was adjudged worthy of a certificate, but as Cross was kiu^d at the front recently, the certificate goes to his widow.

Alfred T. Cleverly was awarded a certificate for attempting the rescue of a man from drowning at Wellington on 13th November, 1917. •

Constable Ernest F: Jones was awarded a certificate for rescuing two men from, drowning in the Manawatu River at Palmerston on 26th January. (

Norman. Batchelor, a Christ's College boy, was awarded a bronze medal for rescuing a man from drowning at New Brighton. • In connection with the rescue of three girls from drowning at Gisborne on 27th January, 1918, Thomas Heeney and Eric D. Robinson were awarded bronze medals, and Tflfemas Inghain, Lillian Whiteley, and Eric Ellery certificates.

For rescuing a boy from drowning at Oamaru, Violet Metcalf (aged 14) is to receive a letter of commendaition.

A certificate was awarded to John, Cameron for an attempted rescue from drowning at Oamaru on Ist January, 1918. ' ■'• . '

In the case of Philip L. Hunt, for the attempted rescue- of Chief Petty Officer Sandells at Nghauranga, Wellington, on 16th December, 1917, the application was held over because it had inadvertently been made to the Royal Australian Society.

Emily Towers was awarded a cer-, tificato for the rescue of three women in tho Thames' public baths. Eodolphus Richardson, for the rescue of a boy at Gisborne on 22nd April, 1918, received a silver medal.

A framed, certificate has been awarded to Glenwyn B. Ensor (12) for the rescue of another girl at Cheltenham beach, Auckland, on 31st December, 1917.. ■ - ■

In the case of the late Arthur H. Ambury, who gave his life attempting to rescue the late W. E. Gourlay from death on Mount Egmont on 3rd. June, 1918, it. was considered that Ambury deserved - the society^ gold medial, but under the rules this oould not be granted. It was decided to forward an In Memoriam certificate • with a personal letter appreciating the act and regretting that the directors were unable to award the gold medal.

It was . decided to send a letter of commendation to William F. Murphy, for saving two girls from drowning at Ten Mile Creek.