REAL HEROINE
PRAISE FROM QUEEN BUSH FIRE GIRL. MELBOURNE, August 25. Florric Hodges, the fifteen-year-old bush fire heroine, has now £I,OOO to her credit, and her photograph hie? been accepted by the Queen, who is highly plea.scd with the gift. To-day Hr" Maloney, M.H.R., received the following letter from Buckingham Palace“ The Lady-in-Waitmg presents her compliments to Hr W. Malonev, and is commanded by the Queen to thank him very much indeed for his letter and for the framed photograph of Florrio Hodges, with which Her Majesty is much The Queen is full of admiration for Florric’s pluck and courage, and thinks her a real heroine.” [The deed which has earned Florrio so much fame was performed at Powcllr town on “Black Sunday,” February Ft last, when, although badly burned herself, she lay for two hours over her two young sisters and saved them from the flames of the bush fires. The money is to be invested for her, and will return her £1 a week for life.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 3
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168REAL HEROINE Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 3
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