BUTTER.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2601, 9 April 1915, Page 4

BUTTER.

UP TO .1/4 PER LP. , HI BLECI'BIC) TBIiEGBArH. —COiTItIGHT. YVH l-BESB ASSOCIATION, Melbourne, April 8. JButtor bus been raised io Wd per pound. "' '

In selecting "the most deserving act of gallantry of tho year," tho Trustees of tho Stanhope gold modal, must consider the many bravo deeds, and pa.ss under review a series of. thrilling tales. Their award this year to Edward John Hales, chief officer of the s.s. Mimetic of tho Aml row A Voir Line, is one that can scarcely be chalenged (says the Shipping-AVorld). In June last the Mimeric encountered a violent typhoon in the Sea of Japan. When the.storm was afc its height a. fishing schooner turned turtle was sighted with four men clingiug to her bottom. Tho steamer was got near onough to rcscuo them, and thou it. w;is found that inside the eeboonor was a- woman who was unable to gel. nut. Taking an axe. Hales dropped info Iho raging sea, and swam to the wreck. Then" lie cut through tho ship's bottom ,aud got the woman out. Tho steamer drew near again and lowered a boat, but it was blown away, aud for nearly an hour Hales and tho rescued woman were on tho bottom of tho wreck, with seas breaking oyer them and in constant danger of being swept away. That gold medal has been richly won. Tho Mimeric called at AVellingtoii in January last to laud the chief officer (then Mr Harding), who was suffering from an injury to one of his legs.